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Sender: Pope, Alexander
Recipient: Broome, William
Letters: 1
Date(s): 5 Nov [postmark 1715]
Location: BC MS Lt.q 14 Safe
Note: Autograph, signature defective. To Bromme "at Sturston, near Diss/ By Diss Bay in/ Norfolke". Written Saturday. Is sending first volume of Pope's version of Homer, with the Greek commentary of Eustathius for recipient to translate. Has read Duport's "Gnomologia Homerica" (postscript, which repeats mailing information about Eustathius). Foot of pp. mutilated in opening, also a few words from beginning of p.1. Sotheby's sale 23 June 1958, Lot 140; part of property of E.C. Wingfield-Stratford, Esq. Quarto, 4 pp. including address.
Title: Poverty and poetry
Author: Broome, William
Attribution: Mr Broome
Date(s): 171- or 172- ?
Manuscript: Lt 20
Contents: Lighthearted verses on poets' lack of financial reward compared to some other
professions. Differs from the version published in 1727.