From the Collection: Beinecke, Edwin J. (Edwin John), 1886-1970
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
GEN MSS 664
Container / Volume:
Box 34, folder 820
Image Count:
48
Description:
Includes:
["And me, the wise of now..."] (5962)
["At night I leave my little bed..."] (5989)
"Auld Reekie," poem (5994-5996)
Catriona, table of contents (6076)
["For I think you may percieve..."] (6233)
"The Foreigner at Home" (6237)
[Hazlitt, William. Notes for Projected Biography] (6275)
["Here in the place of the snows..."] (6311)
["How tall the grass and daisies grow..."] (6324)
[Linguistic Exercise] (6527)
[Lists of Titles of Books, Essays, Etc. Written or Projected by R.L.S.] (6533)
"The Merry Men," table of contents (6576)
["O come, and take the mask away..."] (6653)
["O to arise and travel far..."] (6667)
["It is my wish that Robert Louis Stevenson..."] (6701)
[Stevenson at Play] (6916)
["When, years ago, in Greece I dwelt..."] (7149)
["Whiles frae the fishwife's causey rond..."] (7154)
[Will] (7302)
["Ye chimney pots of London, the wind shall blow you down..."] (7190)
From the Collection: Beinecke, Edwin J. (Edwin John), 1886-1970
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
GEN MSS 664
Container / Volume:
Box 34, folder 821
Image Count:
27
Description:
Includes:
["Arise, he said, unfriended boy..."] (5974)
"Clans and Septs," notes (6099)
["If it be true..."] (6390)
["Je cherche à acheter cher..."] (6474)
["My muse, who has been out of town..."] (6610)
["On the unquiet waters of the world..."] (6686)
[The Transformation of the Highlands], table of contents (7055)
From the Collection: Beinecke, Edwin J. (Edwin John), 1886-1970
Published / Created:
[1871]-1872
Call Number:
GEN MSS 664
Container / Volume:
Box 34, folder 825
Image Count:
8
Description:
Includes:
["And all this is to me but a single wood..."] (5960)
"Aphorisms" (5971)
["The deep grass sighed and rustled..."] (6150)
["Do with it as they will..."] (6160-6161)
"Imaginary Conversations" (6400)
"Intellectual Powers," outline (6457)
[Legal Notes] (6504)
["Lo as the trodden violet, the sun..."] (6536)
["The ringing ice was smooth as air..."] (6792)
["This winter day the lighted sky..."] (6976)
From the Collection: Beinecke, Edwin J. (Edwin John), 1886-1970
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
GEN MSS 664
Container / Volume:
Box 35, folder 828
Image Count:
22
Description:
Includes:
["But star or compass far a-sea..."] (6059)
["Calumnious writers say that I..."] (6064)
["A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind..."] (6220)
[French History. Fifteenth Century], notes (6244)
["I am a letter in a tongue..."] (6327)
["I come, in hot reduplication..."] (6330)
["I was a Frenchman..."] (6369)
[If I be neither ill nor well..."] (6384)
["A long time ago the world began..."] (6541)
["Mine be the lips..."] (6582)
["A modern Samuel, if the tale be true..."] (6586)
["My question now all spirits occupies..."] (6612)
["Promise from my... dear father to but..."] (6745)
Volume 12, page 214. Horace Walpole and his world.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing with two scenes: 'the back parlour" in an oval within a larger rectangular view of a 'park wall'. The park wall is covered in ivy and at its base, lush ferns and other plants and mushrooms, ferns and at the top a stand of trees. The oval inset in the lower right shows a man view from behind, sitting in a chair looking out a window at a city street scene and two birds at perched on the vine before a leadlight casement window
Description:
Title written below image, from a quotation by Horace Walpole's letter to Miss Berry December 1793: "A park-wall with ivy on it and fern near it, and a back parlour in London in summer, with a dead creeper and a couple of sooty sparrows, are my strongest ideas of melancholy solitude. A pleasing melancholy is a very august personage, but not at all good company.”, Signed and dated by the artist in lower left corner of image., Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period., Page reference for quotation written below title: Page 288., and Bound in as page 214 in volume 12 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world / edited by L. B. Seeley ... London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
Subject (Topic):
Parlors, Garden walls, Casement windows, and Depression (Mental state)