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- 1930s? (Creation)
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1 notebook with black hard cover; 124 ff. (lined; some detached from cover), plus two plain endpapers; 1 loose sheet inserted.
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Endpapers used for lists of poems [perhaps for Trevelyan's "Collected Works?]; another list inside. Notebook filled in from both ends, with contents including: essay on translation of Lucretius; dialogue between Septimius and Cinna ["Maya"], "Beelzebub"; dialogue between Thersites, Cressida and Poet; dialogue between Cressida, Lady Pandar, and Troilus; prose narrative about Abdul and Hasan; dialogue between Coryat [a name used for a Trevelyan-like figure in Lowes Dickinson's "Modern Symposium"] and Miranda on the subject of Love; text for lecture on Chinese poetry, containing praise of the translations by Arthur Waley; a prose narrative about a young man thinking through his ambitions in life, another version of this with Coryat as the young man; list of decisions about the future, for example, 'C. decides to be a prophet. A. " " " a poet..."; list of characters/names in two columns, 'Gigadibs, Puce, Prof Bruce? [circled], Apollinax? / Percy Smith?, Cynicus? [struck through], Panurge? [circled], Thersites? [struck through]' - these could be intended as pseudonyms as a third column contains names of friends, 'C.A [Clifford Allen], Goldie [Lowes Dickinson], (Klingsor), [Bernard] Berenson'; dialogue between 'P.' and 'D.' regarding a conversation D. and 'R.H.' have recently had with Coryat [see 29/2]. Loose sheet with verse dialogue between 'Father' and 'Child'.
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29/2: notebook including dialogue between D., R.H., and Coryat; 31/3, notebook also containing dialogue on Love between Miranda and Coryat.
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- Lucretius Carus, Titus (c 99 BC – c 55 BC) poet and philosopher (Subject)
- Waley, Arthur David (1889-1966) orientalist (Subject)
- Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes (1862-1932), humanist, historian, and philosopher (Subject)
- Allen, Reginald Clifford (1889-1939), 1st Baron Allen of Hurtwood, politician and peace campaigner (Subject)
- Berenson, Bernard (1865-1959), American art historian (Subject)