THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE. Autograph manuscript signed ("W M Thackeray") of the elegiac love poem "Only One Year Ago," n.p., n.d., 1 page, long narrow folio, 365 x 115mm., (14 3/8 x 4 1/2in.), a fair copy written in his slanted hand in dark brown ink, four 8-line stanzas, signed at bottom, laid down, light foxing, a fold hole injuring a few letters, a fold crease across Thackeray's signature, bound in marbled boards. The poem begins: "In the pleasant Summer weather, When the sun was low Side by side we walked together Just a year ago...", and ends: "Gone for ever -- sorrow only Future life can know, Since she died and left me lonely -- Just a year ago"; Autograph manuscript notes, n.p., n.d., a small 4to leaf separated at center horizontal fold into 2 oblong 8vo pages, in his upright hand. The first page contains caustic definitions of a Tory and a Whig ("who dare not be a knave nor an honest man but is a sort of whiffling Harlett"). The second page quotes Blackwood's Magazine on John Keats and continues: "Reader if thou art an honest stout country Squire what thinkest thou of the following debauch with Hunt & Hazlitt...", (this is followed by five lines of verse ending "And a moon & friends arm to go home with at night"). (2)
THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE. Autograph manuscript signed ("W M Thackeray") of the elegiac love poem "Only One Year Ago," n.p., n.d., 1 page, long narrow folio, 365 x 115mm., (14 3/8 x 4 1/2in.), a fair copy written in his slanted hand in dark brown ink, four 8-line stanzas, signed at bottom, laid down, light foxing, a fold hole injuring a few letters, a fold crease across Thackeray's signature, bound in marbled boards. The poem begins: "In the pleasant Summer weather, When the sun was low Side by side we walked together Just a year ago...", and ends: "Gone for ever -- sorrow only Future life can know, Since she died and left me lonely -- Just a year ago"; Autograph manuscript notes, n.p., n.d., a small 4to leaf separated at center horizontal fold into 2 oblong 8vo pages, in his upright hand. The first page contains caustic definitions of a Tory and a Whig ("who dare not be a knave nor an honest man but is a sort of whiffling Harlett"). The second page quotes Blackwood's Magazine on John Keats and continues: "Reader if thou art an honest stout country Squire what thinkest thou of the following debauch with Hunt & Hazlitt...", (this is followed by five lines of verse ending "And a moon & friends arm to go home with at night"). (2)
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