Adventures of a younger son : manuscript, [1830-1831].

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Adventures of a younger son : manuscript, [1830-1831].

Autobiography in the hand of Charles Armitage Brown with manuscript annotations and revisions as well as compositor's marks in ink. Mary Shelley, Horace Smith and possibly Thomas Jefferson Hogg assisted with the editing.

450 p., bound ; 33 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7799890

Houghton Library

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