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

1 single sheet

(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.)

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’.