Item #45841 Signed autograph manuscript sonnet titled "Captive" Harriet Prescott Spofford.
Signed autograph manuscript sonnet titled "Captive"

Signed autograph manuscript sonnet titled "Captive"

Ca. 1896. Single sheet (approx. 21 x 14 cm.); text on recto only; fine. A clean manuscript copy 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

Price: $375.00