Autograph Manuscripts of verse and prose, 40 letters to Everard Meynell and 8 autograph notebooks

Item author: Francis Thompson
Item date: 19th century
Grant Value: 2,000
Item cost: 16,250
Item date acquired: 1994
Item institution: Harris Public Library
Town/City: Preston
County: Lancashire

Collection also contains the working material for Meynells biography of Thompson. One of the 8 autograph note books contains the drafts of his most famous poem The Hound of Heaven

Item Provenance
Collection of Thompsons biographer Everard Meynell, Sothebys July 1994, Lot 99