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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 3 (search)
II. a Shelley manuscript Were I to hear to-morrow that the main library of Harvard University, with every one of its 496,200 volumes, had been reduced to ashes, there is in my mind no question what book I should most regret. It is that unique, battered, dingy little quarto volume of Shelley's manuscript poems, in his own handwriting and that of his wife, first given by Miss Jane Clairmont (Shelley's Constantia ) to Mr. Edward A. Silsbee, and then presented by him to the library. Not only is it full of that aroma of fascination which belongs to the actual handiwork of a master, but its numerous corrections and interlineations make the reader feel that he is actually traveling in the pathway of that delicate mind. Professor George E. Woodberry had the use of it; he printed in the Harvard University Calendar a facsimile of the Ode to a Skylark as given in the manuscript, and has cited many of its various readings in his edition of Shelley's poems. But he has passed by a good ma