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- c 1930? (Creation)
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One black hardcover notebook. 118 ff (lined pages) plus two plain flyleaves.
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Translation of "Medea" lines 774-1080; 1116-end; 1081-1230; 627-759. Stage directions for Trevelyan's "Sulla", including sketch of scenery; some lines of play text. Translation of Lucretius, "De Rerum Natura" line 96-199.
Book also used from other end in: Translation of "Medea" lines 184ff. "The Fig Tree"; "Cortona"; one of Trevelyan's "Epistolae ad Amicos" (in part written over pencil draft of "Sulla"). List of recipients of poetic "Epistolae": 'Julian. Hasan [Shahid] Suhrawardy (Rex [Suhrawardy's dog]), Nicky [Mariano]...', also list of topics for verse/essays. Verse, 'I have a friend who loves all homely things...'. Two loose sheets with list of poems from "Rimeless Numbers" and draft for a letter [?, no addressee's name] 'I don't know why, unless it be because I am fond of you and so welcome any excuse for writing a letter...'. More draft verse.
List of names under the heading 'Letters' on inside cover - [George?] Meredith, [Walt?] Whitman, Lascelles [Abercrombie] and others - as well as a draft of a piece on 'metrical theory and analyses' for 'Rimeless Numbers' [1932], which continues onto the flyleaves and other inside cover. Also a note of 'Madelina', corrected to 'Marlena' Dietrich's name with 'German film actress. Blau[e] Engel' written underneath.
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- Euripides (c. 480 BC–c. 406 BC), Greek tragedian (Subject)
- Lucretius Carus, Titus (c 99 BC – c 55 BC) poet and philosopher (Subject)
- Trevelyan, Julian Otto (1910-1988), painter and printmaker (Subject)
- Suhrawardy, Hasan Shahid (1890-1965) poet, art critic and diplomat (Subject)
- Mariano, Elisabetta (1887-1968) secretary and companion of Bernard Berenson, known as Nicky (Subject)
- Meredith, George (1828-1909), novelist and poet (Subject)
- Whitman, Walter (1819-1892), American poet, essayist, and journalist (Subject)
- Dietrich, Marie Magdalene (1901-1992) actor and singer, known as Marlene (Subject)