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- [1690s?] (Creation)
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29 folded sheets (most opened out); 31 single sheets.
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These documents were originally assigned the reference Add. MS. 317. Add. MS. 302 is named as related material; this is the correspondence relating to the transfer of Thomas Power's papers to Trinity now to be found at O.11a.2/30-36.
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Includes folded sheet with draft of three letters by Power: one written from Nevis, 5 Jul. 1698, to George Stepney; one to Benjamin Portlock; one to Matthew Prior. Verse in English and Latin, including translations of Virgil, Aeneid VI and Horace Epistle 2.1, and drafts of Power's Latin translation of Milton's Paradise Lost.
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- Latin
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O./11a.2/30-36: Copy of Thomas Power's will, and correspondence relating to his papers.
R.2.37-38: MS translations of Paradise Lost into Latin by Thomas Power
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- Power, Thomas (c 1660-1698), clergyman and translator (Subject)
- Stepney, George (1663-1707), diplomatist and poet (Subject)
- Portlock, Benjamin (c 1666-1740), secretary to the 2nd Duke of Ormonde (Subject)
- Prior, Matthew (1664-1721), poet and diplomat (Subject)
- Vergilius Maro, Publius (70 BC-19 BC), poet, known as Vergil or Virgil (Subject)
- Horatius Flaccus, Quintus (c 65-8 BC), poet, known as Horace (Subject)
- Milton, John (1608-1674), poet and polemicist (Subject)