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The Locations of Copy U of Songs of Innocence and Copy d of Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Having had occasion, last summer, to write to a number of libraries on the subject of their Blake holdings, I found that two copies, Songs of Innocence, copy U, and Songs of Innocence and of Experience, posthumous copy d (as listed by Keynes and Wolf in the Census), far from being at Harvard and Yale respectively, seem to be no longer in the public domain. Carolyn E. Jakeman of The Houghton Library wrote that, to the best of her knowledge, copy U is the property of Mrs. Harold White; Christina Hanson of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library wrote that posthumous copy d was in the hands of C. A. Stonehill of New Haven in 1939 and that the purchaser’s name is unknown to her. Since the new Bibliography by Bentley and Nurmi does not mention this, and since that work and the Census are the chief sources for locating the various copies of Blake’s works, this small detail might be a useful timesaver for seekers of exemplars of the Songs.