Ms draft of introduction to 'The Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayaam'

Ms draft of introduction to 'The Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayaam' consisting of: fragment numbered 1 in red, headed 'Foreword to the Original Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayaam'; page numbered 1 and headed 'Foreword'; fragment beginning "Edward Fitzgerald is now [...]"; page numbered 2A with fragment attached; page numbered 2B with heavily scored fragment attached; page numbered 3 with fragment attached; page numbered 3A consisting of two attached fragments; page marked "* insert 3B" and consisting of two attached fragments, formerly attached to page numbered 3B; page numbered 3B and beginning "Nevertheless, the puritannical [sic] doctors of Khayyam's [sic] day [...]"; page numbered 3B and beginning "The following quotations from the Song of Solomon [...]"; page numbered 3C; page numbered 3D consisting of three attached fragments, one in ts; page numbered 4; fragment beginning "'The Bell no Question makes' is a clumsy inversion [...]"; fragment numbered 5 attached to unnumbered page and with one attached fragment; page numbered 5A; page numbered 6; page numbered 6a in red; page numbered 6B; page numbered 7 in red; page numbered 8 with fragment attached [fragment written on verso of letter from TV Time Recordings Inc.]; page numbered 9, subsequently scored out, with attached fragment; page numbered 10, subsequently scored out and renumbered "(14 etc)"; fragment beginning "disgust. [...]"; page numbered 11 consisting of four attached fragments; fragment numbered 12, subsequently altered to 13; page numbered 14; page numbered 12, subsequently altered to 16, and additionally numbered 15; page numbered 4 and 16, subsequently scored out and renumbered 18; page numbered 12 subsequently scored out and renumbered 15A and consisting of two attached fragments; page numbered 13, subsequently scored out and renumbered 17; page numbered 14, 18 and 21, subsequently scored out and renumbered 19; page numbered 20; page numbered 21.

This item arrived in some disarray and where possible the sequence of the text has been reconstructed. Four fragments of an earlier draft have been kept here as other parts of this earlier draft have clearly been incorporated into this slightly later version.

Reference: RG/E/ROK/2; Association: see also; Page numbered 18 of RG/E/ROK/3 may also be the missing page 4 of RG/E/ROK/2.;