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STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-1904). Extensive notebook of autograph poetry and prose, most entries heavily revised and amended, several pages with brief Latin passages in a different hand than Stevenson's; undated (but some of the same verses in other sources are dated 1871-1879).
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STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-1904). Extensive notebook of autograph poetry and prose, most entries heavily revised and amended, several pages with brief Latin passages in a different hand than Stevenson's; undated (but some of the same verses in other sources are dated 1871-1879).
An extensive notebook, containing a rich collection of Stevenson's early compositions, many evidently unpublished, at least one drafted here was later published in Underwoods, others in Poems Hitherto Unpublished, ed. George S. Hellman, Boston, 1916. Pages 17 to 22 contain verses beginning "An' Johnies deid..."; its four-line stanzas have been numbered 1 though 13, by Stevenson, indicating their sequence. Stanza 11 of this work mentions Shakespeare and Keats; one line in the verses on p.24 reads "Browning couldn't sing at all." The pages of prose would appear to be part of an unfinished critical essay; page 48 reads: "Dr John Brown calls this, is his preface to it, a delightful book, and Dr. John Brown is a good judge. A delightful book it certainly is, and delightful in no ordinary way..."
4to. 220 x 175mm (8 ¾ x 6 3/8 in.). 57 pages (50 pages of verse, 7 pages prose, evidently a book review) written in pencil, written on rectos only of heavy, unwatermarked writing paper. Red morocco gilt, upper cover gilt-lettered "R.L. Stevenson. / Original Autograph Poems" gilt top edge, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Protective clamshell box.
At least a few verses also appear in oems hitherto Unpublished: "When aince Aprile has fairly come / And winter turned his icy brown, / Love, in our auld recruitin' drum / ..." (p.8) An lord! But lassies eyes are bright / And lassies dresses are unco' tight, / A lad's heart trembles at the sight..." (p.9). Multiple stanzas. Cf Beinecke 7138 and 7139, first published in Underwoods, 1887. Another verse: "Love, what is love? A great and aching heart; / Warm hands; and silence; and a long despair. Life, what is life? / A branch, gray and bare, / To see her coming and see love depart." Cf Beinecke 6547. First published in Poems: Hitherto Unpublished., v.1, p. 254; 6548, dated 6548, dated March 1876.
An extensive notebook, containing a rich collection of Stevenson's early compositions, many evidently unpublished, at least one drafted here was later published in Underwoods, others in Poems Hitherto Unpublished, ed. George S. Hellman, Boston, 1916. Pages 17 to 22 contain verses beginning "An' Johnies deid..."; its four-line stanzas have been numbered 1 though 13, by Stevenson, indicating their sequence. Stanza 11 of this work mentions Shakespeare and Keats; one line in the verses on p.24 reads "Browning couldn't sing at all." The pages of prose would appear to be part of an unfinished critical essay; page 48 reads: "Dr John Brown calls this, is his preface to it, a delightful book, and Dr. John Brown is a good judge. A delightful book it certainly is, and delightful in no ordinary way..."
4to. 220 x 175mm (8 ¾ x 6 3/8 in.). 57 pages (50 pages of verse, 7 pages prose, evidently a book review) written in pencil, written on rectos only of heavy, unwatermarked writing paper. Red morocco gilt, upper cover gilt-lettered "R.L. Stevenson. / Original Autograph Poems" gilt top edge, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Protective clamshell box.
At least a few verses also appear in oems hitherto Unpublished: "When aince Aprile has fairly come / And winter turned his icy brown, / Love, in our auld recruitin' drum / ..." (p.8) An lord! But lassies eyes are bright / And lassies dresses are unco' tight, / A lad's heart trembles at the sight..." (p.9). Multiple stanzas. Cf Beinecke 7138 and 7139, first published in Underwoods, 1887. Another verse: "Love, what is love? A great and aching heart; / Warm hands; and silence; and a long despair. Life, what is life? / A branch, gray and bare, / To see her coming and see love depart." Cf Beinecke 6547. First published in Poems: Hitherto Unpublished., v.1, p. 254; 6548, dated 6548, dated March 1876.