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Brotherton Collection3
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Smyth, Thomas3
T. Smyth Aetat.151
Captain Thomas Smyth1
Thomas Smyth; [Latin]1

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Title: On the sugar cane

Author: Smyth, Thomas

Attribution: T. Smyth aetat.15

Date(s): 1799 ?

Manuscript: Lt 11

Contents: On the widespread British dependence on the products of sugar cane, strongly

criticising the exploitation and slavery of African negroes that lie behind

the trade.

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Title: Upon the death of my honor'd friend & patron Lord Hugh Seymour address'd to

my father. Paraphrase of Horace

Author: Smyth, Thomas

Attribution: Thomas Smyth; [Latin]

Date(s): 1801 ?

Manuscript: Lt 11

Contents: Elegiac lament for the death of Vice-Admiral Lord Hugh Seymour, praising his

virtues. Apparently paraphrasing Horace.

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Title: The survey, by Captain Thomas Smyth, who then commanded The Pretty Lass.

[Latin epigraph]

Author: Smyth, Thomas

Attribution: Captain Thomas Smyth

Date(s): 181- or 182- ?

Manuscript: Lt 11

Contents: Comic ballad, a tale of an appearance to Smyth, on board ship, by a ghostly

hag claiming to be the 'Pretty Lass' and his bride. He is rescued by

'Melville', probably Robert Dundas, Viscount Melville, First Lord of the

Admiralty.

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