BURROUGHS, JOHN. Autograph manuscript signed of the long essay "Literary Values," n.p., n.d. [1902 or earlier]. 47 pages, 8vo, sizes and paper stock slightly irregular, in ink, a working draft with extensive revisions, calligraphic title-page, mounted on thick and slightly larger sheets, bound in green straight-grain morocco, gilt-lettered and with gilt-ruled borders, t.e.g., a little scuffed, spine area mellowed to brown; with a photocopy of a printed version of the piece. Burroughs's disquisition includes discussions or mentions of Lowell, Longfellow, Whittier, Emerson ("and all the rest of them"), Bunyan, Walton, Defoe, the Bible, Gilbert White, Carlyle, Dana, Gibbon, De Quincey, Macaulay, Whitman, Henry James, Scott, Dickens, Howells, Froude, Freeman, Ruskin, Lincoln, Grant, George Eliot, Saint-Beuve, Wilkie Collins, George John Pettit, Henry George, Benjamin Kidd, John Morley, Thackeray, Poe (lengthy), Hawthorne, Haggard, Tennyson, Tupper, John Foster, Milton, Tolstoy, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Keats, Wordsworth, Swinburne, Flaubert, Chaucer, Dante, Homer, Frederic Harrison, Maurice Hewlett, Bagehot, Sydney Smith, and (finally!) Ben Jonson. Burroughs's effort formed the title essay in his Literary Values and Other Papers (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1902), pp. 1-26, a volume in the Riverside Edition of the author's works.