Robinson, Leonard Wallace, 1912-1999. American literature--20th century.
The pages featured here include the title page from Robinson's 1976 manuscript, and a passage from pages 111-113 of published novel from Harper and Row.
Manuscript copy of Browning's 'Human Life's Mysteries', here entitled 'Life'. The poem was first published in the 1850 London edition of Browning's Poems.
Manuscript poem by Thomas Love Peacock from a letter to Lord Broughton, Nov. 13, 1862, on mourning paper. Cf. Nicholas A. Joukovsky, Letters of Thomas Love Peacock, v. 2, 1828-1866, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001. Letter no. 327.
Translation by Thomas Love Peacock of the last five lines of Euripides' Alcestis. An addendum by 'R. Garnett' (presumably Richard Garnett) notes this. A pencilled note on the verso suggests that the manuscript was given by Garnett to 'J. Everson'...
Fragments of a draft of Poe's review of The Literati of New York by S. Anna Lewis (published in The United States Democratic Review, 23.122, August 1848, pp. 158-60).
Manuscript of de Quincey's essay 'Anecdotage', which was first published in The London Magazine, March 1823. Available online at: http://books.google.com/books?id=gtcYAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA244.