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The Sword — Draft 1

Part of The Sword

StateDraft 1Surviving witnesses1TSS catalogue units2
Textual identity is not textual authority. “Catalogue primary/default” selects the default catalogue representation; it does not mean that this wording is automatically Howard’s most authoritative text.

Characters in this exact text

Harold LambHarold Lamb — historian and historical-fiction writerMentionedfirst: Sentiment, printed p. 568 / PDF p. 586PlutarchPlutarch — ancient Greek biographer and historian directly named by Howard in historical proseMentionedfirst: Sentiment, printed p. 568 / PDF p. 586

Surviving manuscript evidence

The records below describe surviving physical typescripts, carbons, manuscript material and documentary catalogue evidence for this exact textual state. TSS numbers identify physical catalogue units; they are not story or draft IDs.

Draft 1 — story-text component in The Golden Caliph typescript witnessHoward typescript
Extent2 pagesCompletenessComplete

Physical extent: 2 TSS catalogue units

TSS: 65521, 65523

Robert E. Howard original-typescript story-text component preserved within The Golden Caliph.

Additional documentary notes

  • Amateur Periodical Context: Story text survives within The Golden Caliph; the larger issue remains physical/source context rather than a REH Writings Work. (witness level)
  • Authorial Typescript: The source code OT identifies the represented sheet(s) as original-typescript material. (witness level)
  • Source Supertitle: The source records the supertitle 'The Department of Weapons'; it is preserved as source context rather than replacing the Work title. (witness level)

Source: 000 TSS of REH moving towards final.xls · Complete List · Sword, The (d1) · TSS 65521, 65523 · spreadsheet rows 16047–16048

Textual witnesses & editorial mediation

These records describe how this textual state is known or represented. A witness may be authorial, editorially mediated, restored, transcribed or otherwise derived without becoming a new Howard-authored textual state.

Sentiment (2009 first printing), pp. 567–568.Later publication / editionAuthority basis: Editorially mediated witness · Treatment: Unknown / not yet reviewed

Sentiment (2009 first printing), pp. 567–568.