Item 9 - Book with notes by R. C. Trevelyan on lectures about the Franco-Prussian War, later used for a translation from Lucretius

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TRER/28/9

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Book with notes by R. C. Trevelyan on lectures about the Franco-Prussian War, later used for a translation from Lucretius

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  • c 1886-1930s (Creation)

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1 notebook with black gilded leather covers and marbled endpapers, 63 ff.

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Scope and content

Notes on several events during the Franco-Prussian war, with several maps [ff 1-32]; reference to 'Mr [Edward] Bowen' being in Paris at the time suggests that the lectures were delivered by him during Trevelyan's schooldays at Harrow, 1886-1890 [f 31].

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