'Lavengro' by George Borrow; [1843-1848]. Autograph drafts of various portions of the work, together with extraneous material. Page references are to the first edition of 1851. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, pp. 44-45. As follows:
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
'Lavengro'. Drafts; circa 1844. 1. Draft, with many revisions and cancellations, of part of Vol. I, chapter vi, written on both sides of seven octavo leaves of white wove paper. No watermark. The final text found in the draft differs in many places from that printed on p. 79, l. 5-p. 87, l. 15...
'Lavengro'. Part of an account of the reaction to the first appearance of 'Lavengro', by George Borrow; 1872. Autograph fair copy, written on both sides of a quarto leaf of white laid paper (f. 40). The leaf is conjoined with another (f. 41), on which are two short phrases in Borrow's hand, one ...
'Lavengro'. Drafts; [1843-1848] . 1. Draft, heavily revised, and with several rejected passages, of parts of Vol. I, chapter xiv (ff. 1-7) and xv (ff. 7b-9b), written on both sides of seven quarto leaves of white laid paper, and on one side only of two part quarto leaves of the same (ff. 3, 7)....