Add MS 83065

Lamb Papers (Series II). Vol. ciii. Notebook of poetry and notes on Catullus; early 19^th cent. Collection of poems compiled, composed or translated by George Lamb and notes for Lamb’s translation of Catullus. Encloses an extract in French from ‘Élémens de l’Histoire de France, depuis Clovis jusqu’à Louis XV’ by Jean Millot. The poetry on folios 1-32 appears to be in a variety of hands, the predominant possibly being an early hand of George Lamb. Given the connection of a number of the items with Eton, it seems that the notebook may have been begun by George as a pupil and reused later for his translation of Catullus. (247/7).

245 x 190mm. Contents:

Inside upper cover: index.

1. p.1. Toby’s Petition (excised).

2. p.3. ‘Song sung…at Eton College on the occasion of the Scholars subscribing to the Voluntary Contribution’, by ‘one of the Scholars’, 19 Feb 1798.

3. p.4. blank.

4. pp.5-9. ‘Sea Ballad’.

5. p.9 'Inscription on a silver cup belonging to the Lunatic Club held at the Crown and Anchor in the Strand’ by G. Churchill.

6. pp.10-11. ‘Copy of verses on Toby’ (excised).

7. p.12. ‘Epigram’ (excised).

8. pp.13-16. ‘Farewell Exercise to Eton’ based on William Collin’s ‘Second Eclogue’ of Persian Eclogues. (p. 13 excised).

9. p.16. ‘Heliodora…’.

10. pp.17-18. ‘From the Greek of Simonides’ [translated from Simonides’ ‘Danae’?].

11. p.18. ‘Eton Extempore on book stealing’.

12. p.19. Lampoon on a Duke, a parody of Thomas Gray’s ‘The Bard’. The subject is described as the same as that of f. 1.

13. p.22. ‘Prologue spoken at a private theatre’ (excised).

14. p.23. ‘Chorale’ (excised).

15. p.24. ‘Epilogue spoken at a private theatre’ (excised).

16. pp.26-30. ‘Fall of Babylon, a prophetic ode, taken from the fourteenth chapter of Isaiah’.

17. p.31. ‘Upon a Spaniel who was found dead in a field’.

18. pp.32-33. ‘Song intended for a Harlequin Farce to be sung in the character of a Fruitman’.

In reverse from the back, in George Lamb’s hand:

1. pp.175-174. 8^th ode of the first book of Horace.

2. pp.174-172. 9^th ode of the third book of Horace.

3. pp.171-169. ‘Parody on a song in the “Anatomie of Melancholie”’.

4. p.168. Notes on Catullus.

5. pp.167-131. Draft preface for Lamb’s translation of Catullus (‘The Poems of Caius Valerius Catullus. Translated with preface and notes by the Hon. George Lamb. (London, 1821)).

6. pp.129-33. Draft endnotes for Lamb’s translation (paginated 1-48).