British Literary Manuscripts: From 1800 to 1914

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Courier Corporation, Jan 1, 1981 - Antiques & Collectibles - 311 pages
19th-century British literary culture as seen through the autograph hand. Manuscripts reproduced from the original in the Morgan Library show hands of Coleridge, Scott, Jane Austen, Byron, Keats, Dickens, 130 autographs by 113 authors. Important documents, intimate approach to literature. Transcriptions, commentary. Checklist of Mss. in Morgan Library.

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Tough
1
draft of The Miner ca 17989
6
The Lady of the Lake 180910
10
S T Coleridges
14
The Life of Cowper 1835
18
Lochiels Warning 1802
23
The Palfrey 1842
26
The Jackdaw
32
The City of Dreadful Night 18703
87
letter to Thomas James Cobden Sanderson 1885
88
Peter Ibbetson ca 188990
90
The Pirates of Penzance 1879
91
At Eleusis ca 18645
92
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1883
94
The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid 18823
95
The Abbey Mason 1911
97

letter to Thomas Carlyle 1837
53
letter to Anna Biddell 1875
56
letter to Charles Dickens 1850
57
letter to William Henry Brookfield 1832
58
Vanity Fair 1847
59
letter to Mrs William Henry Brookfield 1850
60
A Christmas Carol 1843
66
Mari Magno ca 18523
72
The Stones of Venice 18512
75
letter to Thomas Arnold 1857
77
The Woman in White 185960
79
letter to Ed ward Marston 1899
80
The Blessed Damsel dated 1847
81
Diana of the Crossways ca 18834
82
The Main Regret 1901
84
Double Acrostic
85
The History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century ca 18756
86
letter to Edward Wil liam Urquhart 1867
98
letter to Alfred Miles 1891
100
Weir of Hermiston 18923
101
Robert Elsmere 1887
102
Memories of My Dead Life ca 19056
103
letter to Sir Arthur Sullivan 1889
104
The Picture of Dorian Gray 1890
106
postal card to Arthur Henry Bullen 1897
107
Ballads and Songs ca 1894
112
The Admirable Crichton 1902
113
Captains Courageous 1896
115
Non sum qualis
117
The Pagan ca 1901
120
Open Letter
125
Eloi Eloi lama
129
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1st Baron 1st Earl Ads n.d. ALEXANDER ALFRED Als n.d. April August Autograph letter signed Bart Browning Byron CHARLES CHECKLIST OF AUTOGRAPHS Coleridge collection David David Garrick December Dickens draft EDWARD ELIZABETH England English February FRANCIS FREDERICK George Grossmith hand HELEN BUCKINGHAM illegible deletion J. E. Millais J. P. Morgan James Murray-Pulteney January Joan Severn John Ruskin July June Keats Lady literary London Lord March Mary Millais MOORE Morgan Library n.d. including n.d. to Sir novels November October passage shown PHILIP poems poet poetry prose published RICHARD ROBERT S. C. Cockerell S. L. Sotheby Samuel Scott September Shelley Sir George SIR HENRY Sir James Murray-Pulteney Sir John Millais Sir Sydney Cockerell SIR WILLIAM Sonnet T. J. Cobden-Sanderson things THOMAS thou typescript undated but written unsigned and undated verse W. A. Knight W. C. Macready W. E. Henley Wordsworth writing

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Verlyn Klinkenborg comes form a family of Iowa farmers. He is a member of the editorial board of The New York Times and has written for The New Yorker, Mother Jones, and Harper's. He lives on a small farm in upstate New York.

Bibliographic information

TitleBritish Literary Manuscripts: From 1800 to 1914
Volume 2 of British Literary Manuscripts
AuthorsVerlyn Klinkenborg, Herbert Cahoon, Pierpont Morgan Library
Editionillustrated
PublisherCourier Corporation, 1981
ISBN0486241254, 9780486241258
Length311 pages
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