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Typescript of Robert Kroetsch's The Ledger, first published in 1975

Typescript of Robert Kroetsch's The Ledger, first published in 1975

Typescript of Robert Kroetsch's The Ledger, first published in 1975

Typescript of Robert Kroetsch's The Ledger, first published in 1975

Typescript of the drafts of Robert Kroetsch's poem, "Excerpts From The Real World".

Typescript of the drafts of Robert Kroetsch's poem, "Excerpts From The Real World".

Typescript of the drafts of Robert Kroetsch's poem, "Excerpts From The Real World".

Typescript of the drafts of Robert Kroetsch's poem, "Excerpts From The Real World".

Typescript from the third draft of Robert Kroetsch's 1969 novel The Studhorse Man.

Typescript from the third draft of Robert Kroetsch's 1969 novel The Studhorse Man.

Typescript from the third draft of Robert Kroetsch's 1969 novel The Studhorse Man.

Typescript from the third draft of Robert Kroetsch's 1969 novel The Studhorse Man.

Typescript from the third draft of Robert Kroetsch's 1969 novel The Studhorse Man.

Typescript from the third draft of Robert Kroetsch's 1969 novel The Studhorse Man.

Typescript draft of Robert Kroetsch's Letters to Salonika

Typescript draft of Robert Kroetsch's Letters to Salonika

Typescript draft of Robert Kroetsch's Letters to Salonika

Typescript draft of Robert Kroetsch's Letters to Salonika

Typescript draft of Robert Kroetsch's poem, Sounding the Name

Typescript from the third draft of Robert Kroetsch's 1969 novel The Studhorse Man.

Written draft of Robert Kroetsch's, The Poets Mother

Typescript draft of Robert Kroetsch's, The Poets Mother, with annotations

Typescript draft of Robert Kroetsch's, Sounding the Name, with annotations

Typescript draft of Robert Kroetsch's, Sounding the Name with annotations

Typescript draft of Robert Kroetsch's poem, Sounding the Name

Typescript draft of Robert Kroetsch's poem, Sounding the Name

Typescript draft of Robert Kroetsch's Letters to Salonika

This full-page image, “Scene in the Hospital for Incurables on Blackwell’s Island,” appears two pages after The Moonstone in Harper’s Weekly. In W. S. L. Jewry’s illustration, two American women aid a sick man as he lies in a hospital bed. His bed is…

Valentine’s Day was an important day for letters and, as recorded by David M. Henkin, caused post offices to be “lumbered with wagon loads of valentines” (Henkin 149). He also notes that St. Valentine’s Day was popular as a “prolific source of dead…

In "Illustrating The Moonstone in America: Harper's Weekly and Transatlantic Introspection” (2014), Molly Knox Leverenz reminds readers that The Moonstone was published in the United States of America in the years following the Civil War (21). She…

Harper's Weekly advertises for more than its own brand. The brand names of other products are given equal opportunity to be seen on the page as the ads for Harper's. Harper's weekly is a brand in and of itself without relying on the contents being of…

The layout of the pages in Harper's weekly is less formal, though still giving emphasis to the text, and the header does not dominate as much of the space as it did in All the Year Round. The text is separated into four columns and are marked by…

The header for The Moonstone in Harper's Weekly stands out from the header for the publisher at the top of the page. "The Moonstone" is written in larger font than the Harper's header and Wilkie Collins is credited by name and by another of his…

This small image, featured in a section among cartoons, limericks, and poems, same as the comic strip featuring the giant letter, is the last visual reminder of the prominence of the letter contained in this edition of the weekly publication. It…

The previous image depicted Harper’s Weekly’s continual Valentine’s Day propaganda. Henkin suggests it to be a theme of the publication’s as an effort to “defend the “Valentine mania” against cynicism in 1859” and offers other examples of their…

This section of "The Moonstone" is placed in between Harper's many visual reminders of the prominence of the letter, and it promotes the book as being "Richly Illustrated", which furthers draws the reader's eye towards the story. The mention of the…

Like All the Year Round, Harper’s Weekly is shown to favor The Moonstone in its publication, though not as exclusively. Other works in Harper’s are also illustrated and have attention drawn to them, however, similar to the transition between stories…

  Leighton and Surridge point out that the illustrations of the Harper’s installments “[heighten] the text’s sensationalism” (207), but the form itself also lends itself in the dramatization of the text. Whereas All the Year Round takes on a book or…

  In The Moonstone in Harper’s Weekly, which was circulated through the United States, the title is similarly printed in distinct, capitalized letters that are easily noticeable from other titles. In Harper’s, too, more space is given around the…

This image contains the article “The Devil Tree” in the Harper’s Weekly publication. The article discusses the people of Zanzibar, Tanzania in Africa and a certain cultural practice they perform. The people of Zanzibar believed they could exercise…

This image contains two articles found before the moonstone in the January 25th edition of Harper’s Weekly. The two articles discuss political policies in England. The article “Double Allegiance” discusses the absurdity of England’s allegiance laws…