Item 9 - Verses entitled ‘Epitaph on a beautiful Boy’

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Identity area

Reference code

R./2.40A/9

Title

Verses entitled ‘Epitaph on a beautiful Boy’

Date(s)

  • 26 July 1813 (Creation)

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Item

Extent and medium

1 single sheet

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Scope and content

(The date is that of the superscription, the direction being ‘Hon[ora]ble | Mrs Byron | Pelham Street | Nottingham’. The note ‘In same case as 1st letter’ has been written on the back in pencil. For the significance of this note see the Archival History of this collection.)

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Publication note

First printed in Notes and Queries, 24 Sept. 1864, in a communication by T. C. Smith (Thomas Charles Smith?).

Reprinted in various miscellanies the same year, the correct reading ‘emits’ (line 3) being replaced by ‘permits’.

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