The Laird of Waristoun (corrected draft manuscript)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Production Description
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Author: Algernon Charles Swinburne
Date of composition: 1861
Type of Manuscript: corrected draft
Collation: 2 leaves
Note: The text is written on the recto of each leaf, with the verso of the
first leaf (in DGR's hand) carrying the last two stanzas of the ballad
(in Swinburne's hand). The second leaf is a composite of both
hands.
Scribe: DGR and Swinburne
Provenance
Current Location: Princeton University Library
Catalog Number: 23286
Note: T. J. Wise had this volume of materials bound together.
Physical Description
Cover: Brown morocco
Paper: 8 x 12 7/10 in. blue laid
Watermark: TH Busbridge
Other Physical Features: The paper is the kind that Swinburne often used. DGR is never known to
have used it. Also bound up with this manuscript are Swinburne's
manuscript “Notes on Rossetti's Works, 2 Vols
1886”; a printed proof text of DGR's “After the
French Liberation of Italy”; and the privately printed (1910)
text of Swinburne's “A Record of a
Friendship”.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Copyright: Used with permission of Princeton University. From the Princeton
University Library, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. All rights
reserved. Redistribution or republication in any medium requires express written
consent from Princeton University Library. Permissions inquiries should be
addressed to Associate University Librarian, Rare Books and Special Collections,
Princeton University Library.
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Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
The manuscript is in two hands, DGR's and Swinburne's. DGR has written out the first 80 lines of the ballad, Swinburne has written out the rest. Most of the corrections are Swinburne's, except for a few textual changes in lines 1-80 that DGR made as he was composing the verse. The actual revisions in lines 1-80 are all by Swinburne.