Item 146 - Incomplete letter from Augustus De Morgan

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Add. MS a/202/146

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Incomplete letter from Augustus De Morgan

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  • 1 Aug. 1862 (Creation)

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91 Adelaide Road NW - Reflects that Whewell and Herschel and a Mr Murray are all translating Homer, and sends his own hexameter, a parody of the opening of book one of the 'Iliad'; comments on hexameters and the English language, praising the hymn to the Saint by Masaniello [in 'La Muette de Portici'] and its alternating dactyls and spondees. J. T. Graves has rendered his name into 81 anagrams, which he encloses [no longer attached].

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      Lacks the final page(s).

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