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- 1880s-1912? (Creation)
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1 notebook with brown leather cover (very loose). 58 ff: lined pages, some loose, several blank.
Inserts: 6 bifolia, 13 single sheets, 1 endpaper plus back cover of book.
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Notes on the Wars of the Roses, including a family tree [from Trevelyan's school days?].
Opening [?] of prose narrative set in the British Museum Reading Room.
Extensive extract from prose narrative [Trevelyan's never completed novel?], describing the view from Meliance's window, his waking from a dream (with brief verse), seeing Helen/Orgeluse picking flowers and going downstairs intending to speak to her. Written on recto only, with additions and corrections on facing pages.
Loose inserts: 1 bifolium with "Modern Greek ballad", "Dirge", "From Theognis", "Dirge"; 1 sheet, "Before, I tire of loving thee, my love..."; 1 bifolium with translation of Catullus 81, "A lament", "Song", "Italian folk songs"; 1 bifolium, "The Mountain-brook", "Song", "The Thrush's Song"; 1 sheet, "There was a little monkey from monkey-land"; 1 foolscap bifolium with translation of Catullus 63 ("Attis"); 1 foolscap sheet, "Wishes", "Greek folk-song", "Satyr's Song (from Ariadne [i.e. "The Bride of Dionysus"])"; endpaper and back cover of a French Garnier Classics book, with verse in pencil on endpaper, "Sidelong/Downward a little leaning/bending thy dear head...".
Several blank pages in notebook, then more inserts: bifolium headed letter paper from The Green Farm, Timworth, Bury St. Edmunds [country home of Desmond and Molly MacCarthy] with draft verse in pencil; 1 sheet, ["Italian Folk Songs"]; 1 large sheet, "The Mulberry Tree Speaks"; 1 sheet, "What wert thou, happy dream?" [from Meliance narrative, see above]; 1 foolscap sheet, "Now now needs must I sing".
Several further blank pages, then more inserts: 1 sheet, "My love among all lovely things..", with musical notation on the back [since the poem is published in "The Bride of Dionysus... and other poems", perhaps the music is by Donald Tovey]; 1 bifolium, "Methought I had been wandering alone..."; 1 sheet, "When the children come at eve...", title, "The Mulberry Tree", added later in pencil; 1 sheet, "To yon thicket hind and hart go rarely.." ["The Thrush's Song"]; 1 sheet, "No now fain would I sing"; "Thou gaunt grey-bearded boatman" ["Charon"]; 1 sheet, "When dreaming of thy beauty by the sea..."; 1 sheet, "I ; thought that Love..."; 1 sheet, "What wert thou, happy dream". Further blank pages.
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Pencil annotations on inside front cover: 'Beginnings [?]; Main Traits; Plays; Life'; 'Plays' then written out in more elaborate font; pencil circles.
Reference in pen on first page from Quinct[ilian]; note in pencil, 'Jackson on relationship through women not men [?]. New idea that it [illegible]. Straw hat man [?]'; pencil circles.
Pencil annotations on inside front cover: list of poems in two columns, 'Attys Rooks Pan song...' [perhaps thoughts on what should be included in a collection?]
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- Theognis (c 570 BC - c 485 BC) poet (Subject)
- Valerius Catullus, Gaius (c. 84–c. 54 BC), Roman poet (Subject)
- MacCarthy, Sir Charles Otto Desmond (1877-1952), knight, literary reviewer and drama critic (Subject)
- MacCarthy, Mary Josepha (1882-1953) Lady MacCarthy, writer, known as Molly (Subject)
- Tovey, Sir Donald Francis (1875-1940), knight, music scholar and composer (Subject)
- Fabius Quinctilianus, Marcus (c 35–c 100) educator and rhetorician, known as Quinctilian or Quintilian (Subject)