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Beneath huge Andes' solitude of snows : autograph manuscript of a poem, [1807-1813].

BIB_ID
80804
Accession number
MA 3908
Creator
Bowles, William Lisle, 1762-1850.
Display Date
[1807-1813].
Credit line
Purchased, 1983.
Description
1 item (8 pages) ; 20.9 x 16.6 cm
Notes
The manuscript is undated, however the paper is watermarked 1807.
An untitled early draft corresponding to the first 125 lines of "The Missionary" published in 1813.
Written in a stitched notebook, otherwise blank.
Provenance
Purchased on the Acquisitions Fund, 1983.
Summary
Being an autograph draft of 114 lines of a poem with revisions and corrections throughout.