Item 11 - Notebook with translation of Lucretius's "De Rerum Natura" by R. C. Trevelyan, and other drafts

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TRER/31/11

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Notebook with translation of Lucretius's "De Rerum Natura" by R. C. Trevelyan, and other drafts

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  • 1910s? (Creation)

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1 notebook with black hard cover; 60 ff. lined pages plus two endpapers; 5 loose sheets inserted.

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Few pages of draft of Trevelyan's "The Pterodamozels"; draft presidential speech by Trevelyan for the Apostles' dinner [in 1918] which contains reminiscences of the recently deceased Henry Montagu Butler and a reference to Bertrand Russell's imprisonment, as well as an account of a dream-conversation with the first Apostle [George] Tomlinson including Tomlinson, an 'Eminent Victorian', complimenting Lytton Strachey on his recent book [one page detached from binding]; play set in the Forest of Broceliande with characters including 'Lady', 'Hunter' and 'Boy', including three loose sheets.

Notebook also used from back page in: part of "Maya", with another draft poem in pencil on facing pages; "Pusska"; translation of Lucretius book 5.102 onwards; extra text from "Maya", including a loose sheet.

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