BIB_ID
304732
Accession number
MA 2919.14
Creator
Heber, Reginald, 1783-1826.
Display Date
[ca. 1803?].
Credit line
Purchased, 1977.
Description
1 item (18 p.) ; 26 cm
Notes
Dating from previous cataloging.
Part of a collection of manuscripts, letters, and printed ephemera related to Jane Porter. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
This poem won the Oxford prize for English verse in 1803.
Part of a collection of manuscripts, letters, and printed ephemera related to Jane Porter. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
This poem won the Oxford prize for English verse in 1803.
Provenance
Sir Thomas Phillipps (Phillipps MS 14629); purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1977.
Summary
A heavily revised working draft of the poem. Written on the rectos and with corrections and additions on most of the versos of 18 leaves, which are watermarked 1794.
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