REH’s Writings

Exact textual stateText

A Chinese Washer, Ching-Ling

StateLetter-preserved textSurviving witnesses1TSS catalogue units1Catalogue 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.

Ching-LingChing-Ling — Chinese washer in the limerick “A Chinese Washer, Ching-Ling”On Page2 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: Collected Poetry UE Vol. 3 p. 162

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.

Published-page witness — The Toreador, July 5, 1925Other physical witness

Extent1 pageCompletenessCompleteness uncertain

Physical extent: 1 surviving publication-page TSS item shared with two other poems

TSS: 15508

Published-page reproduction from The Toreador, July 5, 1925.

Source: 000 TSS of REH moving towards final.xls · Poetry working list · A Chinese Washer, Ching-Ling (pub/preserved page) · TSS 15508

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. 162Restored reading editionAuthority basis: Restoration toward authorial text · Treatment: Restored toward authorial wording

The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard UE Vol. 3 p. 162

Published in

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