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Letter from Alexander Pope to William Broome : Correspondence 1715.
Literary Manuscripts Leeds: Sources from The Brotherton Library, University of Leeds Available online
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- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Pope, Alexander, author.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 4 pages, including address
- Summary:
- Pope writes that he is sending the first volume of his version of Homer, with the Greek commentary of Eustathius for the recipient to translate. He adds that he has read Duport's "Gnomologia Homerica" (in a postscript, which repeats the information about Eustathius)
- Notes:
- AMDigital Reference:Lt q 14
- Autograph manuscript, signature defective. Addressed to Broome "at Sturston, near Diss/ By Diss Bay in/ Norfolke", and dated Saturday 5 Nov [postmark 1715]. Foot of pages mutilated in opening, also a few words from beginning of p.1
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