Item 4 - Draft translations of Aeschylus' Choephori and Persae by Edward FitzGerald

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Add. MS a/5/4

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Draft translations of Aeschylus' Choephori and Persae by Edward FitzGerald

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  • [c 1878?] (Creation)

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1 manuscript volume; some lose sheets. 223pp.
3 letters pasted in with back used for further text.

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MS note at beginning of book: 'If these Rough drafts of a Version from Aeschylus' Persae and Choephori are found among my Papers. Burn them [underlined]. E.FG. Nov [?] 1882'.

pp 1-102: translation of Choephori (3 last sheets loose)
pp 103-145: blank
pp 146-223: translation of Persae, written from other end of book in (i.e. 223 to 146; 223 is the pastedown)

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at p 5: from Edward Rose, Edgehill House, Anglesea Road, Ipswich, 27 Apr [1878?]
at p 37: from W. Aldis Wright at Beccles, 24 Apr 1878
at p 46: Receipt for £5 made out by Messrs Hewett & Co, The Chinese & Japanese Warehouse, 59 Baker St & Baker St Bazaar, London W. (printed receipt, filled in by hand), 18 Apr 1878.

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