Kx.5.08
Song of the soldiers' wives / written by Thomas Hardy.
1st ed.
London : The Morning Post, [1900]
1 cutting.
1st printing of 'Song of the soldiers' wives' by Thomas Hardy in the Morning Post, 30 November 1900.
See Purdy, p. 109.
This version of the poem has 4 stanzas. In later versions, the poem is edited and the 3rd stanza is omitted.
"Morning Post. 30 Nov. 1900" in ms. in the margin.
In blue half morocco slip case with Kx.5.09 and Kx.5.10.
Morning post, London publisher.
England London.
B35600