Autograph Manuscript poem The Midnight Muse

Item author: William Barnes
Item date: 1818
Grant Value: 250
Item cost: 1,136
Item date acquired: 1994
Item institution: Dorset County Museum
Town/City: Dorchester
County: Dorset

Written when Barnes was 16 years old, an attempt at epic written on the back of two almanacs for the years 1813 and 14.