ABSTRACT
The manuscript of the Graphic stories is extant. It was presented by Hardy, through Sydney Cockerell, to the Library of Congress, Washington DC, in October 1911 when he was distributing his MSS. among various public collections. As R.L. Purdy notes, the MS. was foliated and rearranged by Hardy, and 'The Lady Icenway' is numbered 85-114; however, each of the six stories was also independently foliated and the second page of 'The Lady Icenway' is numbered 7, indicating that its opening six pages were reduced to the single first page which now survives, some time after the story was finished. 2 It is unlikely that this alteration was the result of the Graphic's pressure to bowdlerize the text, since the parts of the story to which they objected occurred at the end.
