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Age Comes to Rabelais

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StateFinished / professionalSurviving witnesses1TSS catalogue units1Catalogue rolePrimary / default
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Characters in this exact text

CainCain — Biblical figure invoked in Howard's Cain-and-Abel comparisonMentioned1 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: Collected Poetry UE Vol. 1 p. 206JezebelJezebel — biblical queen invoked among the damned in “The Road to Hell”; distinct from fictional Jezebel #1360Mentioned1 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: Collected Poetry UE Vol. 1 p. 206Judas IscariotJudas Iscariot — biblical figure invoked in dialogueMentioned1 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: Collected Poetry UE Vol. 1 p. 206SaulSaul — Biblical king discussed by Howard in direct historical proseMentioned1 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: Collected Poetry UE Vol. 1 p. 206

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.

Original Howard typescript — TSS 90063Howard typescript
Extent1 pageCompletenessComplete

Physical extent: 1 catalogued TSS sheet

TSS: 90063

Original Typescript (OT) from the retained TSS catalogue.

Source: 000 TSS of REH moving towards final.xls — Poetry working list rows 774–774

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.

Collected Poetry UE Vol. 1 p. 206Restored reading editionAuthority basis: Restoration toward authorial text · Treatment: Restored toward authorial wording

The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard UE Vol. 1 p. 206

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The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard Volume OneREH Foundation PressOctober 2022↗