A Dirge : autograph manuscript.
Record ID:
80089
Accession number:
MA 1386.1
Credit:
Gift of Harriet Chapman Sprague, 1951.
Description:
1 item (4 pages) ; 20.4 x 12.7 cm
Notes:
Gilchrist dates the first two stanzas of "To A Gentle Spirit of my Youth" to October 1845 but the remainder of the work is dated in October and November 1848.
Housed with an autograph letter signed to Walter White dated Guildford, Surrey, January 16, 1856 (MA 1386.2).
Summary:
Being a manuscript of four complete poems and one incomplete poem each with the date of composition after the last line; including "A Dirge", "Sonnet - A Portrait : Miss E -", To a Gentle Spirit of My Youth", "Sonnet. - To W.H." and eight lines of "Sonnet. - Of My Love."
Provenance:
Gift of Harriet Chapman Sprague, 1951.
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