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A Song of Cheer

Part of A Song of Cheer

StateLetter-preserved textSurviving witnesses3TSS catalogue units4Catalogue 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.

histhe married man — unnamed older married man shared by the narrator and his wife in “A Song of Cheer”On Page1 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: Collected Poetry UE Vol. 3 p. 300mistressthe mistress — first-person mistress/narrator in “A Song of Cheer”On Page1 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: Collected Poetry UE Vol. 3 p. 300slim young boythe slim young lover — unnamed young man whom the wife loved before marrying the older man in “A Song of Cheer”Mentioned1 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: Collected Poetry UE Vol. 3 p. 300wifethe wife — unnamed wife addressed indirectly by the mistress in “A Song of Cheer”Mentioned1 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: Collected Poetry UE Vol. 3 p. 300

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 82604Howard typescript
Extent1 pageCompletenessCompleteness uncertain

Physical extent: 1 catalogued TSS sheet

TSS: 82604

Original Typescript (OT) from the retained TSS catalogue.

Source: 000 TSS of REH moving towards final.xls — Poetry working list rows 690–690

Original Howard typescript — TSS 82603Howard typescript
Extent1 pageCompletenessCompleteness uncertain

Physical extent: 1 catalogued TSS sheet

TSS: 82603

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 688

Glenn Lord retype — A Song of CheerSecondary retype
Extent2 pagesCompletenessCompleteness uncertain

Physical extent: 2 Glenn Lord retype pages

TSS: 15110–15111

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

Source: 000 TSS of REH moving towards final.xls · 15000 / Poetry working list · A Song of Cheer (gr1) · TSS 15110–15111

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. 300Restored reading editionAuthority basis: Restoration toward authorial text · Treatment: Restored toward authorial wording

The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard UE Vol. 3 p. 300

Published in

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