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STERNE, Laurence (1713-1768). Autobiographical Memoir. Autograph manuscript. 1758.
Small improvised notebook, 8 leaves made by thrice folding and stitching a foolscap sheet (160 x 105mm), stitched into a slightly larger notebook during the 19th century, (minor tears in some outer margins repaired).
Described by Kenneth Monkman [see below] as 'written spontaneously in brown ink as the thoughts sprang to his mind with second thoughts squeezed in here and there and erasures made at times in Sterne's hasty manner simply by running a finger through the ink white still wet ... The most intimate evidence we have of the currento calamo manner in which the most spontaneous and innovative writer of the 18th century conveyed himself by means of ink and paper'.
Sterne wrote this memoir in September 1758 'having in a pensive moode, run over these Incidents in my mind, I spent half an hour transmitting them for my Lydia'. At the beginning he writes 'I have sent down these particulars relating to my family & self, for my Lydia, In Case hereafter She might have a curiosity, or a kinder motive to know them'. However he also wrote a second instalment, of which the manuscript has been lost. The present manuscript deals mainly with his father, a subaltern in the army who was posted from place to place, the family usually having to follow him, and Sterne's childhood which was evidently very hard. A postscript on the last page reads, 'May 3d 1759. Agnes Sterne my Mother died abt. 10 o'clock in her Lodgings in Petergate - buried in the South Isle of Bellfries Church. - My poor Father died in March 1731'.
In 1775 seven years after his death, Sterne's daughter Lydia, who by then had become Madame Medalle, published this memoir as an introduction to her edition of Letters of the late Reverend Laurence Sterne to his most intimate friends with a fragment in the manner of Rabelais, to which are prefixed memoirs of his life and family, written by himself. This was published in a great hurry to cash in on her father's popularity. In the printed edition however many facts are garbled and suppressed, completely confusing Sterne's biographers.
The present manuscript has only recently come to light and has been published in facsimile, as Sterne's Memoirs, a hitherto unrecorded holograph now brought to light, with an introduction and commentary by Kenneth Monkman in 1985.
Small improvised notebook, 8 leaves made by thrice folding and stitching a foolscap sheet (160 x 105mm), stitched into a slightly larger notebook during the 19th century, (minor tears in some outer margins repaired).
Described by Kenneth Monkman [see below] as 'written spontaneously in brown ink as the thoughts sprang to his mind with second thoughts squeezed in here and there and erasures made at times in Sterne's hasty manner simply by running a finger through the ink white still wet ... The most intimate evidence we have of the currento calamo manner in which the most spontaneous and innovative writer of the 18th century conveyed himself by means of ink and paper'.
Sterne wrote this memoir in September 1758 'having in a pensive moode, run over these Incidents in my mind, I spent half an hour transmitting them for my Lydia'. At the beginning he writes 'I have sent down these particulars relating to my family & self, for my Lydia, In Case hereafter She might have a curiosity, or a kinder motive to know them'. However he also wrote a second instalment, of which the manuscript has been lost. The present manuscript deals mainly with his father, a subaltern in the army who was posted from place to place, the family usually having to follow him, and Sterne's childhood which was evidently very hard. A postscript on the last page reads, 'May 3d 1759. Agnes Sterne my Mother died abt. 10 o'clock in her Lodgings in Petergate - buried in the South Isle of Bellfries Church. - My poor Father died in March 1731'.
In 1775 seven years after his death, Sterne's daughter Lydia, who by then had become Madame Medalle, published this memoir as an introduction to her edition of Letters of the late Reverend Laurence Sterne to his most intimate friends with a fragment in the manner of Rabelais, to which are prefixed memoirs of his life and family, written by himself. This was published in a great hurry to cash in on her father's popularity. In the printed edition however many facts are garbled and suppressed, completely confusing Sterne's biographers.
The present manuscript has only recently come to light and has been published in facsimile, as Sterne's Memoirs, a hitherto unrecorded holograph now brought to light, with an introduction and commentary by Kenneth Monkman in 1985.