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O./11a.2/22
Title
Typed copy of letter from Huxley St. John Brooks to the Keeper of Printed Books at the British Museum
Date(s)
- 13 Oct. 1921 (Creation)
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3 sheets.
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Sent by Brooks to the Librarian of Trinity, Oct. 1921.
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Re identification of Jonathan Hatfield as the translator of the first canto of Dante's Inferno in a rare pamphlet held by the British Museum, Trinity College Library, and the Manchester Public Library. With letter of the same date from Brooks to the Librarian of Trinity, accompanying the copy.
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Attempt at an English translation in terza rima of the first canto of Dante's Inferno by a late scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge. A copy of the pamphlet discussed in this letter is to be found in Trinity Library, shelfmark 229.c.80.1[8]. See entry in the printed books catalogue here: https://lib-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Record/fb58c051-7e07-426c-8e91-4f5bb8fa74f1.
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O.11.a.2/22