Identity area
Reference code
Add. MS c/82/62
Title
Copy letter from Richard Bentley Porson Kidd
Date(s)
- 9 Sept. 1867 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
2 pp.
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
A copy of a letter found in Richard Porson's edition of Euripidou Hekabē = Euripidis Hecuba : ad fidem manuscriptorum emendata et brevibus notis emendationum potissimum rationes reddentibus instructa, in usum studiosæ juventutis Cantabrigiæ, 1802, shelfmark Adv.c.5.9.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Written by the son of the Rev. Thomas Kidd, enclosing his father's books which he is donating to Trinity College and explaining the connection to Richard Porson and mentioning that he has annotated the copy of "The Persae".