BIB_ID
80089
Accession number
MA 1386.1
Creator
Gilchrist, Alexander, 1828-1861.
Display Date
England, 1848 October and November.
Credit line
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).
Housed with an autograph letter signed to Walter White dated Guildford, Surrey, January 16, 1856 (MA 1386.2).
Provenance
Gift of Harriet Chapman Sprague, 1951.
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."
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