Hospital Outlines: Sketches and Portraits : Edinburgh : autograph manuscript unsigned of 13 poems numbered I-XIII, heavily revised draft of an early version of the sequence, varying substantially from that published in "Cornhill Magazine", July, 1875, 1875.

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Hospital Outlines: Sketches and Portraits : Edinburgh : autograph manuscript unsigned of 13 poems numbered I-XIII, heavily revised draft of an early version of the sequence, varying substantially from that published in "Cornhill Magazine", July, 1875, 1875.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270481982

Includes poems published in "Cornhill" as Sketches: I. First Impressions; II. Waiting; III. The Ward; IV. The Visit; V. Before Operation; VI. After Operation; VII. Night Picture; Portraits: III. Staff-Nurse: Old Style; IV. Lady-Probationer; VII. A Patient; and three unpublished poems: "Nurse/New Style," "Ennui," and "Marasm."

1 item (13 p.) ; (8vo)

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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