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Mary Anne Rawson's The Bow in the Cloud (1834): A Scholarly Edition Main Menu Editor's Introduction Editor's Introduction The Published Anthology Contains all of the pieces published in the anthology, with an editor's note Selected Unpublished Pieces Transcriptions of some unpublished pieces sent to Rawson Text analysis Results of analysing the anthology and its manuscripts Network Analysis Network analysis prototypes, including a network graph of connections in the archive Map of Placenames A map of all places associated with pieces in the anthology People Mentioned Bow in the Cloud: Personography Further Readings A Bibliography of sources relating to this project This project was supported by an NEH-Mellon Fellowship for Digital Publication in 2023/2024 (FEL-289788). Find project data on GitHub.

Letter from Chauncy Hare Townshend to Mary Anne Rawson (English MS 414/107)

1 Letter from Chauncy Hare Townshend to Mary Anne Rawson, with his 'Sonnet. On the Present crisis of affairs, as regards the Emancipation of Negroes'; some variation between manuscript and published version; Townshend also offered a variant line for line 10, which he said in his letter 'some persons might object ... as too severe upon those who are for half & half measures ... Simply considering the line, as it stands at present, as an expression of my own opinions & feelings, & also viewing it as poetry, I must say that I prefer letting it remain as it is'.

Letter from Chauncy Hare Townshend to Mary Anne Rawson, with his 'Sonnet. On the Present crisis of affairs, as regards the Emancipation of Negroes'; some variation between manuscript and published version; Townshend also offered a variant line for line 10, which he said in his letter 'some persons might object ... as too severe upon those who are for half & half measures ... Simply considering the line, as it stands at present, as an expression of my own opinions & feelings, & also viewing it as poetry, I must say that I prefer letting it remain as it is'.

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Sonnet On the Present Crisis of Affairs, as Regards the Emancipation of the Negroes, by Chauncey Hare Townshend Christopher Ohge
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1. Letter from Chauncy Hare Townshend to Mary Anne Rawson (English MS 414/107) Letter from Chauncy Hare Townshend to Mary Anne Rawson, with his 'Sonnet. On the Present crisis of affairs, as regards the Emancipation of Negroes'; some variation between manuscript and published version; Townshend also offered a variant line for line 10, which he said in his letter 'some persons might object ... as too severe upon those who are for half & half measures ... Simply considering the line, as it stands at present, as an expression of my own opinions & feelings, & also viewing it as poetry, I must say that I prefer letting it remain as it is'.
  Letter from Chauncy Hare Townshend to Mary Anne Rawson, with his 'Sonnet. On the Present crisis of affairs, as regards the Emancipation of Negroes'; some variation between manuscript and published version; Townshend also offered a variant line for line 10, which he said in his letter 'some persons might object ... as too severe upon those who are for half & half measures ... Simply considering the line, as it stands at present, as an expression of my own opinions & feelings, & also viewing it as poetry, I must say that I prefer letting it remain as it is'.