The "Last man" - vide annexed plate : autograph manuscript signed with initials : place not specified, undated [after 1829] .

Record ID: 
394390
Accession number: 
MA 13224
Author: 
Barton, Bernard, 1784-1849.
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description: 
1 item (2 pages) ; 22.8 cm
Notes: 

Paper watermarked 1829.
Poem probably inspired by the drawing of the same title by G. Jones, an engraving of which by Robert Wallis appeared, along with literary contributions by Barton, in the 1828 volume of The Amulet, Or Christian and Literary Remembrancer.

Summary: 

Autograph manuscript of the poem in six stanzas of four lines each; first line: I would not give one fin to be / the last man left alive.

Provenance: 
Gordon N. Ray.