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TRER/30/18
Title
Notebook with translation of Lucretius's "De Rerum Natura" Book V by R. C. Trevelyan
Date(s)
- c 1919 (Creation)
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1 exercise book, missing back cover; blue-green front cover detached. 24 ff.
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Translation written out on recto, with notes and corrections on facing pages.
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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.