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Roos Hall, Beccles.—Thanks him for the copy of Prior’s lines. Baldry (a servant) calls bulrushes ‘poker docks’.

(Written some time between the writer’s marriage to F. W. D. Robinson on 17 October 1893 and the death of Aldis Wright’ on 19 May 1914.)

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Roos Hall, Beccles
Sunday

Dear Dr Aldis Wright

Many thanks for the copy of Prior’s lines which I hope Fred will not forget again. Baldry called the bulrushes “Poker docks” & seemed surprised I did not know what he meant, I never heard the word before. He comes from Kirby Cane & I often notice he uses queer words—they may be his own invention.

Yours sincerely
Annie M. Robinson

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{1} Charles Baldry, who was born at Kirby Cane in 1843 but was living at Beccles at the time of the 1891 census, when he was described as ‘Groom & Gardiner. Domestic Serv.’ All his children, the youngest of whom was eight, were also born at Kirby Cane.

Includes folded sheet with draft of three letters by Power: one written from Nevis, 5 Jul. 1698, to George Stepney; one to Benjamin Portlock; one to Matthew Prior. Verse in English and Latin, including translations of Virgil, Aeneid VI and Horace Epistle 2.1, and drafts of Power's Latin translation of Milton's Paradise Lost.

Motto: ‘Odi Imitatores Servum Pecus etc.’ (adapted from Horace, Epistles, I. xix. 19). First line: ‘Since the united Cunning of the Stage’.

Heading continues ‘In Imitation of the 7th Satyr of Juvenal. Et Spes, et Ratio Studiorum etc.’ First lines: ‘Sir. | All my Endeavors, all my hopes, depend’.