crumble?

[Stephen Goranson]

Perhaps both the paper ms disintegrating and the text a mess?

Stephen Goranson

Quoting neil <neil at TYPOG.CO.UK>:

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> A mention of Sodom in W. E. Henley's correspondence to John Stephen Farmer
> about Slang and Its Analogues:
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> 8 July 1902
> '... nor, as I think must you hesitate to transcribe and recover Rochester's
> tragedy Sodom, which exists in MS at the B.M. & is a crumble: in every way.'
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> Can anyone adumbrate crumble?
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