Rose and the Lily

D., A.G., "The Rose and the Lilly," Selections from the Poems of A.G.D., Montreal 1896.

and

D., A.G., "The Rose and the Lily (written for music)", Nugae Canorae, Portland, Maine: Smith & Sales, 1897, p.30.

The manuscript, Selections from the Poems of A.G.D., was illuminated and written by Arthur G. Doughty. There appears to be only one surviving copy of this publication, which is currently held at Brown University (OCLC #56751469); a microform copy (OCLC #56751475) is also available at Brown University.

The featured poem was "The Rose and the Lily", whose title also appears on the spine of the volume held by Brown University. The cataloguing description and the digital images from Brown University do not indicate the length of the manuscript poem. The poem, "The Rose and the Lily (written for music)" was published in Nugae Canorae, 1897. A comparison of the digital images from Brown University to the poem in Nugae Canorae revealed that the two poems were essentially the same with the exception of a few word changes.

Digital images of the illuminated manuscript held by Brown University (OCLC #56751469), courtesy of the university's Special Collections staff, was reviewed; select images are pictured above.

Print copy of Nugae Canorae, 1897, held by LAC (OCLC #976966849) was reviewed; select images are pictured above. Digital copy from microform (CIHM 03939) available through Internet Archive (archive.org) was also reviewed; select image is pictured above.