Item Detail
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2091
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Baring-Gould, Sabine
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Original manuscript of "Three Kings Rode from the Orient Land"
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1 page
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VMSS 355 folder 13
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Consisting of 18 lines. Accompanying the manuscript are two A.L.S.s, 2 pages, 12mo, "Devonshire, Oct. 27 and Nov. 3, 1910", to Elkin Mathews, the publisher, referring to this Christmas carol and adding a further quatrain. Enclosed in half morocco slip case. A fine example. This long-lived hymnologist, novel writer and all-round man of letters is famous as the author of "Onward Christian Soldiers".