Item 1 - Notebook

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TRER/29/1

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Notebook

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  • 1890s-1900s? (Creation)

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Exercise book, 32ff, lined pages, cover missing; contents mostly in pencil though some entries in ink.

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Trevelyan, Robert Calverley (1872-1951), poet, dramatist, and translator
(1872-1951)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Lines copied out by Trevelyan from the 1833 publication of Tennyson’s “The Lotos Eaters” and “The Lady of Shalott” [perhaps comparing the differences with the 1842 edition?]. Draft verse addressed to Thanatos; prose about Meliance of Lys.
Notebook also used from opposite end in: draft prose narrative; notes on Wilson’s “Hindu Theatre” [Horace Hayman Wilson’s “Specimens of the Theatre of the Hindus” and [Charles Henry] Tawney’s translation of “Mālavikāgnimitra”; draft verse [or translation] on the Grail myth.

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