Manuscripts

Horace ode the 2nd Lib. 4th to the Earl of Chesterfield upon his encouraging me to initiate an ode of Horace's imploring the return of Augustus: poem

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Description: This is a fair copy of Pope's poem "An Ode to the Earl of Chesterfield: in allusion to Horace." This copy was previously bound in a volume. In unknown hand.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: [1737].
Call number: mssHM 81269
Creator: Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Acquired from Howey, November 1957.
Dimensions: 32 cm :
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mssHM 81268