Draft of 'Memoirs of William Beckford Esqr.', by Cyrus Redding | Manuscripts and Archives at Oxford University

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Title

Draft of 'Memoirs of William Beckford Esqr.', by Cyrus Redding

Shelfmark

MSS. Beckford c. 86

Summary

Some pages in the hand of an amanuensis, with (fol. i) two slips addressed to the publisher Henry Colburn. A different version of the memoir was published anonymously, as Memoirs of William Beckford of Fonthill, 2 vols. (C.J. Skeet, 1859).

Includes:

(fol. 74v) a note by Lady Hamilton 'the whole of this story an invention'

(fol. 158) an addendum dated Feb. 1847