Hand and Soul (Corrected Page Proofs)

Torn from a copy of The Germ , where the story was first printed in the January 1850 issue, these pages were DGR's initial working proof for revising his tale in 1869. The corrections were probably made in August 1869, though a July date is also possible. The corrections made here were carried over into the first of DGR's extensive set of proof and trial book printings that stretched from July 1869 to April 1870—a process that culminated in the publication of his 1870 volume Poems .

The compositor's names on pages 27 and 31 (“Banfield” and “Howliston”) show that this text was used as printer's copy.