Item 11.49 - ‘Borgia: a Tragedy’, a verse drama by Thomas Brown

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O./11.49

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‘Borgia: a Tragedy’, a verse drama by Thomas Brown

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  • 19th c. (Creation)

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From the library of Sir James George Frazer.

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Bequest of Lady Frazer, 1941.

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Fair copy in an unidentified hand of a verse drama, with a title page with the title only. The play was printed privately in Edinburgh in 1874 under the title 'Borgia: a tragedy, and other poems' by Thomas Brown, of Waterhaughs and Lanfine.

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      Cover title ‘Borgia’ on leather label.

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      Sir James George Frazer’s mother Katherine Brown was first cousin to Thomas Brown, 1802-1873.

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      Previously attributed to Daniel Frazer.

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