Item 9 - Reporter's notebook with drafts of R. C. Trevelyan's "Cheiron", translations from Lucretius, and other works

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TRER/32/9

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Reporter's notebook with drafts of R. C. Trevelyan's "Cheiron", translations from Lucretius, and other works

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  • 1920s? (Creation)

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Reporter's notebook with hard black cover; most pages loose. 94 ff.

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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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Draft from play on the Oedipus myth, presumably by Trevelyan; set at Jocasta's deathbed and after Oedipus's self-blinding. Translation of Lucretius, "De Rerum Natura" book II.191 ff. Notebook also used from other end in: draft from play about Hereward the Wake; draft from Trevelyan's "Cheiron" (including 'play within a play' about Prometheus, Pandora and Epimetheus).

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