Papers of the “<quote>M. S. Society</quote>” John Lucas Tupper 1 1848-1849
mixed prose and poetry satire <artist/> <location/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnpictorial> <citnmythic> <name/> <culture/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnmythic> <citnhistorical> <event/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnhistorical> <citnautobiographical> <name/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnautobiographical> <citnscenic> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnscenic> </listcitn> </source> <commentaries> <head>Commentary</head> <section type="intro"> <head>Introduction</head> <p>This work, by John Tupper, Alexander Tupper, and George I. F. Tupper, is in five parts; three were published in <title level="per"> <hi rend="i">The Germ</hi> no. 3 and the other two in no. 4. As WMR pointed out in his “Introduction” to the 1911 facsimile reprint, the work was hardly suited to the PRB's goals (pages 24-25). Nonetheless, WMR thought it an “exceedingly clever” work when he heard John Tupper read all or part of it in late November 1849 (see Fredeman, <hi rend="i">The P.R.B. Journal</hi> 29).

The title does not mean “Manuscript” but “possibly Medical Student Society”, according to WMR, who had forgotten its meaning, though he could say that “The whole thing is replete with semi-private sous-entendus, and banter at Free Trade, medical and anatomical matters, etc.” (page 24).

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Printed in <hi rend="i">The Germ</hi> no. 3, pages 131-136 and no. 4, pages 183-186.

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Bibliographic

Coombs, James, ed. <hi rend="i">A Pre-Raphaelite Friendship: The Correspondence of William Holman Hunt and John Lucas Tupper</hi> (Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press, 1986).

The Germ text, Parts I-III, and The Germ, Parts IV-V The Germ (British Library Copy, third issue) William Michael Rossetti 1850 March 31 0 The Germ (British Library Copy, issue 4) William Michael Rossetti 1850 April 30 0 The Germ (1901 Facsimile Reprint, issue 3) William Michael Rossetti 1901 0 The Germ (1901 Facsimile Reprint, issue 4) William Michael Rossetti 1901 0