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MSPB/84
Title
Letter from Sir Theodore Martin to A. J. Munby
Date(s)
- 21 Dec. 1896 (Creation)
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1 folded sheet, env.
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The book was the gift of A. J. Munby, May 1910.
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31, Onslow Square -- Hopes Munby has had a chance to read his Virgil, explains that he aimed to make his version as much like an original poem as possible, but thinks the other six books are beyond his power. Has found that their Welsh holiday allowed Lady Martin to gain strength and has not had the continuous pain she has had for several years.
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Tucked into the envelope which is tipped onto the inside back cover of Martin's The Aeneid of Virgil, Books I.-VI. (Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1896) in the Munby Collection (Munby.b.69).