As if the momently incautious reed : autograph manuscript signed with initial : Marblehead [Massachusetts], 1916 Aug. 30.

Record ID: 
393709
Accession number: 
MA 8725
Author: 
Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962.
Credit: 
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Fund, 2016 .
Description: 
1 item (1 p.) ; 23.7 cm
Notes: 

The poem appears to have been written in a guest book from which this page has been torn. The signatures of Hildegard Lasell and Sibley Watson are above the poem and the booksellers note suggests the guestbook belonged "to Cummings's Harvard classmate and soon-to-be publisher at "The Dial", James Sibley Watson, Jr.

Summary: 

Being an autograph manuscript of a poem in two stanzas, the first being of 8 lines and the second of 6 lines,