Felicia Hemans: The American Forest Girl

This material is held atNational Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru

  • Reference
    • GB 210 NLW MS 23980F, f. 3.
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls003218910
      (alternative) (WlAbNL)LLGCb13383489
  • Dates of Creation
    • [1822x1828]
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 1 f. (originally folded as two leaves)
  • Location
    • ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

An autograph manuscript copy, [1822x1828] (watermark 1822), of the poem 'The American Forest Girl' by F[elicia] H[emans], first published in her Records of Woman: With Other Poems (Edinburgh; London, 1828), pp. 131-135.
The manuscript is headed 'Records of Woman - No. 6'; the poem however appears fourteenth in the volume.

Acquisition Information

Bonhams; New Bond Street, London; Purchased at auction, lot 174; 28 September 2004; 003218910.

Note

Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 23980F, f. 3.

Custodial History

Apparently purchased at auction by the Enys family, of Enys near Falmouth, c. 1890s; remained part of the Enys collection of autograph manuscripts until the Bonhams sale.

Related Material

For other autograph poems by Hemans see NLW MSS 9135C, 10707C, 11066C, 16799xliD, and NLW MS 10959C, which includes the poems 'Records of Woman No. 1 - Imelda' (item 10) and 'Records of Woman No. 7 - Gertrude' (item 12), the latter on paper similar to that of the present manuscript.

Additional Information

Published