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Helen : autograph manuscript signed, draft.

BIB_ID
157805
Accession number
MA 3619.2
Creator
Edgeworth, Maria, 1768-1849.
Display Date
Place of writing not identified, not after 1834.
Credit line
Gift of Maisie Kinnicutt Houghton (Mrs. James R. Houghton), 1979.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 25.3 x 20.9 and 5.5 x 20.2 cm
Notes
Helen was Edgeworth's final novel, published in 1834. Presumably these pages were created before that year.
Edgeworth has signed her name and written "Old page of Helen" on one of the pages.
There are numerous edits and subsitutions in the manuscript, possibly in Edgeworth's hand.
This draft was acquired with a letter by Edgeworth, which is cataloged separately as MA 3619.1.
Provenance
Purchased from Goodspeed's Book Shop, 15 June 1979.
Summary
Containing an excerpt from Chapter XIV.