Identity area
Reference code
TRER/29/6
Title
Notebook with translation of Lucretius's "De Rerum Natura" Book II (an extract) by R. C. Trevelyan
Date(s)
- c 1919? (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
Exercise book from W. Straker Ltd., 30 ff., lined pages.
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Essay by Trevelyan on art and knowledge. Translation of Lucretius's "De Rerum Natura" 2.1-189.
Book also used from back cover in: draft verse, "I am he whom you would seek..."; beginning of essay on self.
Allied materials area
Related units of description
30/18, 30/19: further notebooks with translations from Lucretius (though these may have been done for different publications).
Notes area
Note
Trevelyan notes in a letter to Desmond MacCarthy on 12 Feb 1920 that he hopes to get his translation of Lucretius finished next day; Trevelyan's friends begin to send him thanks for "Translations from Lucretius" from Aug 20 onwards.