A book of verses : autograph manuscript.

Record ID: 
103909
Accession number: 
MA 1617.586
Author: 
Henley, William Ernest, 1849-1903.
Credit: 
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Description: 
1 item (9 pages) ; various sizes
Notes: 

Mostly fair copies.
The third poem annotated by Robert Louis Stevenson: "very slight."
Two poems are dated : one untitled with the first line "The skies are sown with stars" is dated February 18-19,1877 and a second poem titled "Attadale" and beginning "A black & glassy float, opaque & still" is dated September 27th, 1876.

Summary: 

Being nine poems titled "II", "Half-Triumph", "XXXVI", "XXI", "Express", untitled and beginning "The skies are sown with stars", untitled and beginning "O Falmouth is a fine town with ships in the bay", "VII / Hic habitat Felicitas" and "Attadale."

Provenance: 
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.