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- 18 Sept. 1873-13 Mar. 1874 (Creation)
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7 sheets and 5 folded sheets.
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Latin hexameters, lyrics, and pentameters. Including translations from Milton's Paradise Lost; 'Lament on the death of Thomson' [ie Ode on the Death of [James] Thomson, by William Collins]; pieces from Holden's Foliorum Silvula [a collection of English passages for translation into Latin and Greek]; Loss of the Birkenhead [by Sir Francis Hastings Doyle]; and 'Somerville's Chase' [or The Chace, by William Somerville]. Pieces which may be Robert Milnes' own composition are a dialogue between Mopsus and Menalcas [characters from Virgil's Eclogues], and a lyric entitles 'Salve, Alexandrovna', dated 13 Mar. 1874 and presumably written to mark the marriage between the Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia and Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.
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- Milnes, Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe- (1858-1945), 1st Marquess of Crewe, politician (Subject)
- Harrow School (Subject)
- Milton, John (1608-1674), poet and polemicist (Subject)
- Thomson, James (1700-1748), poet (Subject)
- Collins, William (1721-1759), poet (Subject)
- Holden, Hubert Ashton (1822–1896) classical scholar and headmaster (Subject)
- Doyle, Sir Francis Hastings Charles (1810-1888), 2nd Baronet, poet (Subject)
- Somervile, William (1675-1742), poet (Subject)
- Vergilius Maro, Publius (70 BC-19 BC), poet, known as Vergil or Virgil (Subject)
- Maria Alexandrovna (1853-1920), Grand Duchess of Russia, wife of Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and sovereign Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Subject)