Item NLW MS 23980F, f. 3. - Felicia Hemans: The American Forest Girl

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NLW MS 23980F, f. 3.

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Felicia Hemans: The American Forest Girl

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  • [1822x1828] (Creation)

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1 f. (originally folded as two leaves)

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Apparently purchased at auction by the Enys family, of Enys near Falmouth, c. 1890s; remained part of the Enys collection of autograph manuscripts until the Bonhams sale.

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Bonhams; New Bond Street, London; Purchased at auction, lot 174; 28 September 2004; 003218910.

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An autograph manuscript copy, [1822x1828] (watermark 1822), of the poem 'The American Forest Girl' by F[elicia] H[emans], first published in her Records of Woman: With Other Poems (Edinburgh; London, 1828), pp. 131-135.
The manuscript is headed 'Records of Woman - No. 6'; the poem however appears fourteenth in the volume.

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English.

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For other autograph poems by Hemans see NLW MSS 9135C, 10707C, 11066C, 16799xliD, and NLW MS 10959C, which includes the poems 'Records of Woman No. 1 - Imelda' (item 10) and 'Records of Woman No. 7 - Gertrude' (item 12), the latter on paper similar to that of the present manuscript.

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Preferred citation: NLW MS 23980F, f. 3.

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vtls003218910

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(WlAbNL)LLGCb13383489

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Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales

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  • Text: NLW MS 23980F, f. 3.