Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature O (Delaware Museum, complete third revise, partial uncorrected copy 2)

This is one of the two uncorrected copies of the third revise for Signature O in the Delaware Art Museum library, which has a total of four copies of this proof signature. Some printer's markings appear beside several of the sonnets in this proof. The first page is torn at the bottom and a manuscript line that seems to be DGR's runs from text line 9 along the left margin to the tornarea, indicating that DGR may have added a note to this text. The text of the line is the received text.

Besides this uncorrected and incomplete third revise proof copy, the Delaware Art Museum library has the following proof copies of Signature O: the author's first proof (corrected, dated 3 May 1881 and numbered 1); three copies of the first revise, the author's corrected copy, and two uncorrected copies, copy 1 and copy 2 (all dated 6 May 1881 and numbered 2a, 2b, and 2c respectively); two copies of the second revise, the author's corrected copy (dated 9 May 1881 and numbered 3a) and an uncorrected copy (undated and numbered 3b); and four copies of the third revise, including this complete uncorrected copy, an incomplete corrected author's copy and a complete corrected author's copy, plus uncorrected copy 1, none dated but each numbered 4c, 4a, 4d, and 4b respectively; and an uncorrected and undated copy of the final proof (numbered 5). The British Library proofs have another copy of revise proofs for this signature (dated 3 May).