Item 14 - Notebook with translation of Lucretius's "De Rerum Natura" VI by R. C. Trevelyan, and other drafts

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TRER/31/14

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

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  • c 1933 (Creation)

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1 notebook with black hard cover; 90 ff. lined pages plus two endpapers.

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Trevelyan, Robert Calverley (1872-1951), poet, dramatist, and translator
(1872-1951)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Translation of "De Rerum Natura" V1 line 697 to end. Notebook also used from other end in: list of names ('B[ernard] B[erenson], Nicky [Mariano], Goldie [Dickinson]… ') on inside cover; various narratives about Coryat [an autobiographical figure] and his childhood, including a visit from his cousin Susan [called Miranda in other versions]; Coryat has trouble writing anything and feels reproached by his books; list of topics relating to baths, developed later in the notebook to Coryat's meditations in the bathroom; story about Saint Francis encountering the ghost of Gaius Flaminius, defeated by Hannibal at Lake Trasimene [version in another notebook, 31/8 is dated 14 May 1933]; dialogue between Cressid and Pandar.

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