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The Premier at the Criterion : printed proof with manuscript corrections, signed in manuscript with initials.

BIB_ID
197449
Accession number
MA 14425
Creator
Fitzgerald, Percy, 1834-1925.
Display Date
London, England, 1885
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 20.5 x 12.2 cm
Notes
Mounted on backing sheet measuring 22.6 x 16.6 cm
Inscribed in ink on backing sheet at upper right: Percy Fitzgerald Athenaeum / Club / Pall / Mall.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Poem in 7 stanzas inspired by a reports that Prime Minister W.E. Gladstone was attending the comedy "The Candidate" at the Criterion Theatre when reports arrived of the death of Major-General Charles George Gordon at Khartoum in February 10, 1885.