xt7qjq0stw34_1510 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/mets.xml https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474.dao.xml unknown archival material 1997ms474 English University of Kentucky The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.  Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. W. Hugh Peal manuscript collection Thomas Hardy letter to [Clement K.] Shorter in a privately printed copy of Hardy's Domicilium for Florence Emily Hardy text 43.94 Cubic Feet 86 boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 22 items Poor-Good Peal accession no. 11453. Thomas Hardy letter to [Clement K.] Shorter in a privately printed copy of Hardy's Domicilium for Florence Emily Hardy 2017 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474/Box_14/Folder_59/Multipage4799.pdf 1904 June 12, 1918 1918 1904 June 12, 1918 
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Peal accession no. 7909.

section false xt7qjq0stw34_1510 xt7qjq0stw34 {HARDY (T.) DOMICILIUM, second edition, four leaves, no.2?) of Q5} ‘ 'c'opies only, A. L. s from the author inserted, original grey“ wrappers in a folding linen case 4230. Printed for Florence Emily Hardy at the Ohisioielc Press . . . Juli, 1918 *fi‘ Thofiihé Ifarily’s earliest known prodfictiofiwin \rel'se.w“lriltten ”between 1857 and 1860 and not yet published. 12‘er grshoma wiggling! V 5“" $1333“! The niglifirga1e1ha1’ , in Thebmn e: sang; Jazz J 1“ w . A13... . if: ~D0M1C1LIUM- BY THOMAS HARDY § Ava/14%;! M M“ §M§Z: 3 0% ML. 42%}4 “ZM wwkm m; :x / / g M I? wag/ma? 4,4 , 47 MM“ ”94F gym/g5 // 744,4, 9W9” MW 1 Wfi Mk /W l/ f) @9444 71/M’17 Mexfiff/M mad (:7 6} W?“ CQQ/Mé/ (<94i/LbL/1: a/Zgg ) I’m 5 » - 441/4sz am; y...» DOMICILIUM BY THOMAS HARDY I. a; THE following lines, entitled “ Domicilium,” are the earliest known poem by Mr. Thomas Hardy. It was written somewhere between the years 1857 and I 860, while he was still living with his parents at the charm— ing cottage described in the verses, the birthplace of both himself and his father. The influence of Words- worth, a favourite author of the youthful poet’s, will be clearly perceived, also a strong feeling for the unique and desolate beauty of the adjoining heath. DOMICILIUM T faces west, and round the back and sides High beeches, bending, hang a veil of boughs, And sweep against the roof. Wild honeysucks Climb on the walls, and seem to sprout a wish (If we may fancy wish of trees and plants) To overtop the apple-trees hard by. Red roses, lilacs, varigated [sic] box Are there in plenty, and such hardy flowers As flourish best untrained. Adjoining these Are herbs and esculents; and farther still A field; then cottages with trees, and last The distant hills and sky. Behind, the scene is wilder. Heath and furze Are everything that seems to grow and thrive Upon the uneven ground. A stunted thorn Stands here and there, indeed; and from a pit An oak uprises, springing from a seed Dropped by some bird a hundred years ago. 5 In days bygone—- Long gone—my father’s mother, who is now Blest with the blest, would take me out to walk. At such a time I once inquired of her How looked the spot when first she settled here. The answer I remember. “ Fifty years Have passed Since then, my child, and change has marked The face of all things. Yonder garden—plots And orchards were uncultivated slopes O’ergrown with bramble bushes, furze, and thorn : That road a narrow path shut in by ferns, Which, almost trees, obscured the passer-by. Our house stood quite alone, and those tall firs And beeches were not planted. Snakes and efts Swarmed in the summer days, and nightly bats Would fly about our bedrooms. Heathcroppers Lived on the hills, and were our only friends; So wild it was when first we settled here.” Twenty—five copies printed for Florence Emily Hardy at the Claiswick Press, London, EC. 714]} 1918 This is No. 2 3. Hit; / HARDY (Thomas). DOMICILIUM. London, 1916. Small 4to, original wrapper. $250.00 ;“:“:"‘Very rare. Only 25 copies privately printed of this, Hardy’s earliest Poem. Signed by F. E. H. Containing A. L. S. from Hardy to Clement Shorter, 1p 12mo, inserted.