Caption title from manuscript reads: A discontented mind to the night.
First line: How thick the clouds of Night are ranged o'er-head!
Poem published as "A discontented mind," appearing as the second part of a poem in four parts, issued anonymously under the title "An address to the night", in the author's Poems : wherein it is attempted to describe certain views of Nature and of rustic manners. London : J. Johnson, 1790, page 125-128).
Manuscript tipped onto a backing sheet and accompanied by an example of the author's autograph excised from an autograph letter signed, no date, to an unidentified recipient, along with a typed biographical note and two clipped printed biographical entries from unidentified sources.
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An address to the night. Discontented mind : autograph manuscript.
Record ID:
195430
Accession number:
MA 13176
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description:
1 item (2 pages) ; 23.9 cm
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Provenance:
Gordon N. Ray.
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