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Secrets

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StateLetter-preserved textSurviving witnesses3TSS catalogue units5Catalogue rolePrimary / default
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

Exhaustively reviewed for this catalogued Poetry state. Generic lyric speakers/addressees, collectives, places and purely metaphorical allusions are not manufactured into permanent Characters.

serpentthe serpent — singular shadow-like serpent that leads and tempts the speaker throughout “Secrets”On Page1 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: Collected Poetry UE Vol. 3 pp. 64–65Ithe serpent-haunted speaker — unnamed first-person narrator led by the serpent toward the sleeping girl in “Secrets”On Page1 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: Collected Poetry UE Vol. 3 pp. 64–65girlthe sleeping girl — unnamed sleeping girl whom the speaker is urged to kill in “Secrets”On Page1 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: Collected Poetry UE Vol. 3 pp. 64–65

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 82220Howard typescript
Extent1 pageCompletenessCompleteness uncertain

Physical extent: 1 catalogued TSS sheet

TSS: 82220

Original Typescript (OT) from the retained TSS catalogue.

Source: 000 TSS of REH moving towards final.xls — Poetry working list rows 547–547

Original Howard typescript — TSS 82221Howard typescript
Extent1 pageCompletenessCompleteness uncertain

Physical extent: 1 catalogued TSS sheet

TSS: 82221

Original Typescript (OT) source code; retained as an original Howard typescript witness.

Source: 000 TSS of REH moving towards final.xls — Poetry working list rows 549

Glenn Lord retype — SecretsSecondary retype
Extent3 pagesCompletenessCompleteness uncertain

Physical extent: 3 Glenn Lord retype pages

TSS: 15135–15137

Glenn Lord preservation retype; source inventory physical description: Flat-t TW.

Source: 000 TSS of REH moving towards final.xls · 15000 / Poetry working list · Secrets (gr1) · TSS 15135–15137

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. 3 p. 64Restored reading editionAuthority basis: Restoration toward authorial text · Treatment: Restored toward authorial wording

The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard UE Vol. 3 p. 64

Published in

The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard Volume ThreeREH Foundation PressNovember 2022↗