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Via Crucis: novel

Description

Large portions of this manuscript written in an unknown hand. Pages are stained and dirty, some pages very fragile and brittle.

Type
Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date
1898 October 5
Call number
mssCrawford
Creator
Crawford, F. Marion (1854-1909)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Purchased by the Library Collectors' Council from Christie's, January 19, 2019. The material in this collection was left by F. Marion Crawford to his daughter Mother Clare Marion Crawford at the Italian convent where she was a nun. The convent retained the material for decades before giving them to Crawford biographer Patricia S. Hageman, with the request the material would be placed at an institution where scholars could access them.
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