BIB_ID
316497
Accession number
MA 1373.1
Creator
Beinecke, Edwin John, 1886-1970.
Display Date
1951 Feb. 5.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 26.6 cm
Notes
Edwin J. Beinecke presented the Morgan Library with two additional leaves from this manuscript: p. 43 (MA 1838, also in 1951) and p. 47 (MA 2075, in 1960).
Written on stationery headed "Edwin J. Beinecke / 114 Fifth Avenue / New York."
Written on stationery headed "Edwin J. Beinecke / 114 Fifth Avenue / New York."
Summary
Presenting the Morgan Library with a leaf (p. 52) missing from the final draft of the autograph manuscript of Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (MA 628); remarking "to be able to fill in a lacuna in a Pierpont Morgan Library manuscript is something one may boast about afterward provided, of course, that he actually eliminates the lacuna." Mentioning that he is presenting Yale University Library with an earlier draft of the work, along with his other Stevensoniana.
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