Identity area
Reference code
R./2.40A/9
Title
Verses entitled ‘Epitaph on a beautiful Boy’
Date(s)
- 26 July 1813 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 single sheet
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Content and structure area
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.)
Allied materials area
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’.