Funding: Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.
Publications: Published as the seventh sketch in his: Our Old Home, 1863.
Ownership: Charles Eliot Norton; Lucius Wilmerding; Berg
Citation/Reference: See Centenary Edition, vol. V, 167-192.

Physical Description

Extent: Notebook (25 x 19.5 cm) 12 leaves
[24 written pages], numbered. Presentation by Lucius Wilmerding to Berg Collection, inside front cover. Note concerning related material, 1 leaf.

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English

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b15823745
Archives ID: 19124
accession number: 376321B
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): c09e0530-43b8-0130-5093-58d385a7b928

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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. "Near Oxford. Holograph MS, undated, used in Our Old Home. Signed with initials. " The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1853 - 1857. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c09e0530-43b8-0130-5093-58d385a7b928

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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. (1853 - 1857). Near Oxford. Holograph MS, undated, used in Our Old Home. Signed with initials. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c09e0530-43b8-0130-5093-58d385a7b928

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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. "Near Oxford. Holograph MS, undated, used in Our Old Home. Signed with initials. " New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 16, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c09e0530-43b8-0130-5093-58d385a7b928

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