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Crewe MS/21/inside back cover
Title
Leaf from the Cornhill Magazine, containing part of an article by Henry H. Wood entitled ‘Jottings from the Note-Book of an Undeveloped Collector’
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- Oct. 1867 (Creation)
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1 sheet
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Includes references to the Milton manuscript in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, the contract between Milton and Simmons for the printing of Paradise Lost (see ff. 26–7 above), and the conveyance from Milton to Cyriack Skinner owned by Monckton Milnes. The last was bought by Monckton Milnes at Samuel Weller Singer’s sale at Sotheby’s on 3 August 1858 (lot 75), and was sold by his descendants in at Christie’s on 23 November 2011 (lot 22).
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Inserted in Crewe MS 21 (inside back cover).