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Autograph copy of an excerpt from Chaucer's The Canterbury tales : [Massachusetts], undated.

BIB_ID
268272
Accession number
MA 687.4
Creator
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 24.4 cm
Notes
22 lines.
At top of page: "Virginia? Nature? Which title" and "Chaucer, The Doctor's Tale."
Part of a collection of two autograph manuscripts, two autograph poems, and five autograph letters. Items in the collection are described in individual records (MA 687.1-9).
Provenance
Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Summary
A modern English translation of lines 5-26 of the physician's tale in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.