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Exact textual stateText

Nectar

Part of Nectar

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

CainCain — Biblical figure invoked in Howard's Cain-and-Abel comparisonMentioned1 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: Collected Poetry UE Vol. 3 p. 187JudasJudas Iscariot — biblical figure invoked in dialogueMentioned1 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: Collected Poetry UE Vol. 3 p. 187PeterSaint Peter — biblical/apostolic gatekeeper addressed as Peter at the gates of Paradise in “Nectar”On Page1 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: Collected Poetry UE Vol. 3 p. 187SargonSargon of AkkadMentioned1 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: Collected Poetry UE Vol. 3 p. 187

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.

Xerox of original typescript — TSS 23922Xerox of Howard typescript
Extent1 pageCompletenessCompleteness uncertain

Physical extent: 1 catalogued TSS sheet

TSS: 23922

Xerox of original (XO) from the retained TSS catalogue.

Source: 000 TSS of REH moving towards final.xls — Poetry working list rows 174–174

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. 187Restored reading editionAuthority basis: Restoration toward authorial text · Treatment: Restored toward authorial wording

The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard UE Vol. 3 p. 187

Published in

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