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HARDY, Thomas (1840-1928). Autograph manuscript signed of 'The Cornhill's Jubilee, An Impromptu to the Editor', with autograph cancellations and emendations amounting to five words on two lines, and a proof (annotated 'for Revise' in autograph) with autograph cancellations and emendations amounting to four words and five new lines, and annotations and typographical corrections in other hands; together with two autograph letters signed and one autograph postcard signed (with initials) to Reginald Smith, Max Gate, 24 - 29 October 1909, altogether 2½ pages, 8vo, and 2 pages, 4to, handwritten, one printed leaf, 8°, and an autograph envelope (proof copy has slight soiling, and three tears, touching one autograph word).
'The Cornhill's Jubilee' is Hardy's ironically lugubrious contribution to the magazine's fiftieth anniversary issue of January 1910, the present manuscripts being the neat copy submitted to the editor, Reginald Smith, and the revised first proof (which differs from the version published in the Cornhill in three words on one line). The accompanying letters to Smith comment self-deprecatingly on the poem, 'its suitability being a matter of doubt. I am afraid it is not quite urbane enough for the occasion', grant permission to keep the manuscript, and comment on the proof corrections.
Hardy's association with the Cornhill had begun with its serialisation of Far from the Madding Crowd in 1874, during the editorship of Leslie Stephen. 'The Cornhill's Jubilee' was reprinted in Hardy's Satires of Circumstance as 'The Jubilee of a Magazine (To the Editor)' in a version differing only in six words on two lines from the present autograph manuscript, and omitting all of the emendations to the proof, amongst them the additional (ninth) stanza. (6)
'The Cornhill's Jubilee' is Hardy's ironically lugubrious contribution to the magazine's fiftieth anniversary issue of January 1910, the present manuscripts being the neat copy submitted to the editor, Reginald Smith, and the revised first proof (which differs from the version published in the Cornhill in three words on one line). The accompanying letters to Smith comment self-deprecatingly on the poem, 'its suitability being a matter of doubt. I am afraid it is not quite urbane enough for the occasion', grant permission to keep the manuscript, and comment on the proof corrections.
Hardy's association with the Cornhill had begun with its serialisation of Far from the Madding Crowd in 1874, during the editorship of Leslie Stephen. 'The Cornhill's Jubilee' was reprinted in Hardy's Satires of Circumstance as 'The Jubilee of a Magazine (To the Editor)' in a version differing only in six words on two lines from the present autograph manuscript, and omitting all of the emendations to the proof, amongst them the additional (ninth) stanza. (6)