Words and days : autograph manuscript notebook, 1886-1895.

Record ID: 
280804
Accession number: 
MA 6143
Author: 
Smith, Logan Pearsall, 1865-1946.
Credit: 
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2004.
Description: 
1 item (ca. 71 p. with text; many additional blanks), bound ; 18.3 cm
Notes: 

Acquired with PML 129493-6.
Signed and dated 1895 on first page; the dates 1884-95 appear at the end but it appears that the notes on the years 1884 and 1885 were added retrospectively.
Foliated by Smith, but with many pages left blank.

Summary: 

A volume of notes on his readings with occasional personal entries, including transcriptions and notes on the work of Milton, Hawthorne, Keats, Ruskin, Rossetti, Shakespeare, and others; and with a brief diary or personal chronology covering the years 1884-95 at the end.

Binding: 
Brown leather by Maltby, Oxford, lettered "Words and days" in gilt on spine.
Provenance: 
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund in 2004.