Signed autograph manuscript sonnet titled Captive

by Harriet Prescott Spofford

$375 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Ca. 1896. Single sheet approx. 21 x 14 cm. ; text on recto only; fine. A manuscript faircopy of the author's 14-line poem Captive, beginning When in the dark of some despairing dream... One of Spofford's more mature poetical works, first collected in In Titian's Garden and Other Poems Boston, 1897; BAL 18520 . Item #45841

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