![Item #305654 Autograph Manuscript leaf from [from Bracebridge Hall]. Washington Irving.](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/305654.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1477628178)
"...they had often seen strange lights and heard strange sounds from the tower..."
Autograph Manuscript leaf from [from Bracebridge Hall].
[1821].
Price: $1,750.00
About the item
1 page. Note in left margin in another hand. 12mo. "...they had often seen strange lights and heard strange sounds from the tower..." Toned, trimmed.
Item #305654
A leaf from the manuscript of Irving's episodic novel Bracebridge Hall, which he wrote in 1821 while living in England and which was published in early 1822. The leaf comes from the "Student of Salamanca" chapter, and reads, in part: "with a subtle gait, a whispering voice and a sinister roll of the eye. He shrugged his shoulders on the students enquiries and said that all was not right in that building. An old man inhabited it, whom nobody knew, and whose family appeared to be only his daughter and a female servant. He and his companions, he added, lived up among the neighbouring hills; and as they had been about at night, they had often seen strange lights and heard strange sounds from the tower. Some of the country people ... believed the old man to be one that dealt in the black art...." We trace no leaves from the manuscript of Bracebridge Hall at auction in the last 65 years.
