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Sparks, Jared (1789-1866) historian, editor, and clergyman
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Notebook containing Lascelles Abercrombie's "Hymn to Love" and "Mary and the Bramble", and Thomas Sturge Moore's "Mariamne"
TRER/30/23 · Item · c. 1911
Part of Papers of Robert Calverley Trevelyan and Elizabeth Trevelyan

Pages 3-7: full quotation from 'Franklin's Works, Sparks, 1836' ["Works of Benjamin Franklin", edited by Jared Sparks, Vol II p 166-167"] of a letter about a 'Proposed new version of the Bible", with old and new versions of "Job" 1.1-11.

Pages 9-17: text of Lascelles Abercrombie's "Mary and the Bramble"

From the other end of the book in: text of Abercrombie's "Hymn to Love" (2pp), 4 blank pages, then Act V of Thomas Sturge Moore's "Mariamne".
Letter from George Ticknor
Add. MS a/213/136 · Item · 15 June 1840
Part of Additional Manuscripts a

Letter of introduction for 'Mr Sparks [Jared Sparks], Professor of History in our American Cambridge', who is to visit London and Paris in order to collect material for his forthcoming History of the Revolutionary War. He will probably visit Cambridge where he is friends with Professor William Smyth. GT remembers his trip to Cambridge with great pleasure and wishes to be remembered to Adam Sedgwick.