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With epigraph in Greek from Aristophanes' Peace. First line of Latin verse: 'Age, concitate cantus; age, ludite, bibite'. Note in pencil at the top: 'Written for the Tercentenary. C. B. Scott & Vansittart'.

Pontefract.

A note at the top of the letter records that it has been 'Copied for C[harles] E[dward] T[revelyan]'; 'I think' is crossed out. The fact that this letter was written 'two days before her [Margaret's] death' is recorded directly on the page above the letter.

Hotel Victoria, Schlangenbad, Eltville am Rhein.

(Declaimed 16 Feb. 1804.)

(Extracts from Vossius’s De Historiis Latinis and William of Jumièges’s Historia Normannorum, with a list of 17th century books.)