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Ashley MS B1972
- Record Id:
- 040-001979048
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001978147
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001448.0x000062
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Ashley MS B1972
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
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'The Cannibal Catechism': a burlesque poem of ten stanzas by A. C. Swinburne; [1865?]. Autograph fair copy, with revisions, written on both sides of two conjoined octavo leaves of cream laid paper. Watermark 'A Pirie & Sons'. The paper bears the monogram of the Oxford Union Society. The MS. is entitled 'The Cannibal Catechism' in Swinburne's hand. Below the title is the autograph note '(versified from the writings of a Father of the Church)'. The first line of the fair copy is preceded by a deleted version of ll. 1-3. Metre a4a4a4b2a4b2, iambs.
The 'Cannibal Club' was a dining club connected with the Anthropological Society of London, to which Swinburne was elected on 18 April 1865 and of which he was still listed as a Fellow on 1 Aug. 1869. On 14 Feb. 1871 the Anthropological Society was merged with the Ethnographical Society to form the Anthropological Institute. The poem was privately printed, inaccurately, and with the omission of the last two stanzas, by T. J. Wise in The Cannibal Catechism, 1913. [Ashley Library Catalogue, vii, p. 28]. ff. 120-121b.
Accompanying the MS. are the following:―
1. Note by Edmund Gosse, 17 Oct. 1912, concerning the date and ownership of the MS., with a note by T. J. Wise on the verso, 6 April 1928, recording the gift of the MS. to him by Gosse. f. 122.
2. Two letters, with envelopes, from Thomas Hardy to T. J. Wise, 21 and 23 March 1926, concerning the former meeting-place of the Cannibal Club. Printed in The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, vii, 1988, ed. R. L. Purdy and M. Millgate, pp. 12-13. ff. 123-127.
includes:
- ff. 120-121b Poetry ENGLISH: Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet: Burlesque poem, 'The Cannibal Catechism', by Algernon Charles Swinburne: [1865?]: Autogr. fair copy.
- f. 122a Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer: Note rel. to Ashley B1972, ff. 120-121b by Sir Edmund William Gosse: 1912.
- f. 122b Thomas James Wise, book collector: Note rel. to Ashley B1972, ff. 120-121b by Thomas James Wise: 1928.
- ff. 123-127 Thomas Hardy, OM; novelist: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Letters to Thomas James Wise from Thomas Hardy: 1926.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Ashley Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001978147
040-001979048 - Is part of:
- Ashley MS A17-5768 : Ashley Manuscripts
Ashley MS B1972 : 'The Cannibal Catechism': a burlesque poem of ten stanzas by A. C. Swinburne; [1865?]. Autograph fair copy, with revisions,… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001978147[0466]/040-001979048
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Ashley MS A17-5768
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1864
- End Date:
- 1866
- Date Range:
- [1865?]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Former Internal References:
- Vol. B III, ff. 120-127.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Gosse, Edmund William, Knight, writer, 1849-1928
Hardy, Thomas, OM, novelist, 1840-1928,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121333830
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, poet, 1837-1909
Wise, Thomas James, book and manuscript collector, 1859-1937