See Provenance: Sotheby’s 1931.
	In the aftermath of the fire that destroyed much of the library of Charles Goodspeed, MS IA was discovered and delivered to Yale, as explained in a letter of November 1942 from Goodspeed to Chauncey B. Tinker:
#Q#
	Yesterday in rummaging about my library I was happy to come upon a folder of Ruskin manuscripts which I knew had escaped destruction, but which I had been unable to locate. I am sending them to you to go with the others. To me they are of particular interest, and they include one piece which, with one possible exception, is I imagine the earliest example known of Ruskin’s handwriting.
	The one beginning “Come on, good horse” is particularly interesting for its reference to  “Glendarg Glen” of Scott’s Monastery, which Ruskin mentions in the early chapters of Praeterita. The list which goes with the manuscripts is, of course, in Wedderburn’s hand. The two pieces marked with a “G” on this list I am keeping myself for the present at least.#FN1#
#/Q#
Goodspeed meant that the contents of MS IA had escaped total destruction, given that several of the items formerly bound in the collection are charred—items that, according to all descriptions, had always been included in MS IA (see Content). Indeed, charring is visible on the very items mentioned in Goodspeed’s letter—the “list . . . in Wedderburn’s hand,” and the blank sheets to which “The Monastery” manuscript is affixed. Fire damage doubtless accounts for the loss of the original binding of MS IA (see Description) along with certain items contained therein (see Content, a; and Content, b).
	The items that, as mentioned in his letter, Goodspeed marked “G” on Wedderburn’s list (i.e., “Time: Blank Verse,” and “Bosworth Field”), he gave to the library in the following year,#FN2# and they are now included in the “Early Poems IA” folder (see Location). Another item in Wedderburn’s list, “A Visit to the Hospice of St. Bernard” (i.e., “The Ascent of the St. Bernard: A Dramatic Sketch”), is notated in Goodspeed’s hand as “sent separately”; this manuscript also is present in the “Early Poems IA” folder. (Perhaps that notation explains what Goodspeed means in his letter to Tinker by “sending [the remaining MS IA items] to you to go with the others”—the  others  being the “Hospice” manuscript as well as the Praeterita manuscript donated in 1941, and other Ruskin manuscripts purchased by Yale from Goodspeed in earlier years; see Provenance: Sotheby’s 1931.
	#FN1#Charles E. Goodspeed, Goodspeed’s Book Shop, No. 18 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts, to Professor Chauncey B. Tinker, 1293 Davenport College, New Haven, Connecticut, 4 November 1942. The letter is now inside the folder for “The Monastery,” which is contained in the box “Miscellaneous Manuscripts,” the same box containing MS IA. See MS IA: Description; and MS IA: Content, a.
	#FN2#See Yale University Library Gazette, 18, no. 2 (October 1943): 36.