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

BIB_ID
393709
Accession number
MA 8725
Creator
Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962.
Display Date
1916 Aug. 30.
Credit line
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,