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Bothwell : a tragedy : autograph manuscript signed of three stanzas from the play, ca. 1874.

BIB_ID
366501
Accession number
MA 460.1
Creator
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909.
Display Date
ca. 1874.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.7 cm
Notes
Housed with Swinburne's autograph manuscript signed of his Preface to Selections from Byron (MA 460).
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1908.
Summary
Includes three stanzas sung by Mary, Queen of Scots, in Scene XVII of Bothwell: a Tragedy. The first, beginning "Qui se fie / À la vie," falls in the middle of the scene, and the second and third, beginning "Coeur sans crainte" and "L'ombre emporte," end the scene.