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Add. MS c/160
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William Hepworth Thompson: a notebook of miscellanea, copies of a lecture on Euripides in 1857, and the printed sale catalogue of his library
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- [c 1830?]-1887 (Production)
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Three separate groups of material:
- An unbound notebook of miscellaneous items, which includes a dialogue between Plato and Paley, with various drawings, parts of poems and complete poems by William Wordsworth and Percy Bysshe Shelley, and a hand-drawn calendar listing plays printed in England in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- 5 copies of a pamphlet headed “Euripides (A lecture delivered in 1857)” signed W. H. T. at the end in wrappers, including one inscribed to H. Jackson and another to Professor Badham, with Thompson's corrections, and another with a note on the front indicating that it was to be revised and submitted to the Journal of Philology, with 13 copies of the offprints from that journal, vol. XI
- Catalogue of the valuable library of the Rev. W. H. Thompson, D.D., deceased…which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge…on the 23rd of May, 1887 & the three days following. London, [1887]. With annotations throughout by an unidentified person.
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The Papers of William Hepworth Thompson, Add.Ms.b.115-119, and Add.Ms.c.72-73, 158-160, are described briefly and linked from the collection level record linked below.
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- Plato (c 428-347 BC), Greek philosopher (Sujet)
- Paley, William (1743–1805) theologian and moralist (Sujet)
- Euripides (c. 480 BC–c. 406 BC), Greek tragedian (Sujet)
- Jackson, Henry (1839-1921), classical scholar (Sujet)
- Badham, Charles (1813-1884), classical philologist (Sujet)
- Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge (Sujet)
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Record revised, with scope and content and name access points added in June 2021.