BIB_ID
413057
Accession number
MA 13993
Creator
De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859.
Display Date
Edinburgh, Scotland, 1839.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 23.2 x 19.2 cm
Notes
Title from the published article originally featured in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine in 1839.
Place of writing inferred from the fact that De Quincey worked and resided in Edinburgh from 1826 until 1840, when he fled to Glasgow to avoid prosecution for debt.
Text extensively corrected in the hand of the author.
Single sheet from a larger manuscript, with page numbers "55" and "56" at head of sheet, and a line count of "31" in the upper left and right hand corners of both recto and verso.
Approximately 900 words about Wordsworth's character and his relations with his wife and sister, from De Quincey's biographical essay "William Wordsworth", originally published in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine for 1839 as number III of a series of essays entitled "Lake Reminiscences from 1807 to 1830", containing the author's reminiscences of the Lake Poets, later reprinted with omissions in De Quincey's collected Works, edited by D. Masson, vol. II (Edinburgh, 1889); first line of fragment reads: ...love) from the impassioned lamentation [text struck out] for "The pretty Barbara", beginning; last line: ...mine which on leaving the candles do not recover their clear vision for two hours), would have worn the air.
Place of writing inferred from the fact that De Quincey worked and resided in Edinburgh from 1826 until 1840, when he fled to Glasgow to avoid prosecution for debt.
Text extensively corrected in the hand of the author.
Single sheet from a larger manuscript, with page numbers "55" and "56" at head of sheet, and a line count of "31" in the upper left and right hand corners of both recto and verso.
Approximately 900 words about Wordsworth's character and his relations with his wife and sister, from De Quincey's biographical essay "William Wordsworth", originally published in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine for 1839 as number III of a series of essays entitled "Lake Reminiscences from 1807 to 1830", containing the author's reminiscences of the Lake Poets, later reprinted with omissions in De Quincey's collected Works, edited by D. Masson, vol. II (Edinburgh, 1889); first line of fragment reads: ...love) from the impassioned lamentation [text struck out] for "The pretty Barbara", beginning; last line: ...mine which on leaving the candles do not recover their clear vision for two hours), would have worn the air.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
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