Item 62 - Copy letter from Richard Bentley Porson Kidd

Identity area

Reference code

Add. MS c/82/62

Title

Copy letter from Richard Bentley Porson Kidd

Date(s)

  • 9 Sept. 1867 (Creation)

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Item

Extent and medium

2 pp.

Context area

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.

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".

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