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Ashley MS 3217
- Record Id:
- 040-001979406
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001978147
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001448.0x0001fb
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Ashley MS 3217
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
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Letter from Edward Fitzgerald to George Borrow; 24 May 1857. Printed in The Letters of Edward Fitzgerald, ed. A. M. Terhune and A. B. Terhune, vol. ii, 1980, pp. 276-277. ff. 1-2. Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, p. 120. The letter is accompanied by two verse fragments in Fitzgerald's hand, not mentioned in Ashley Library Catalogue, as follows:―
1. Draft of a fragmentary translation of Aeschylus, The Persians, ll. 384-407, written on one side only of a quarto leaf of blue wove paper; n.d. No watermark. f. 3.
2. Draft of a fragmentary translation of Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers, 612ff and 631ff, written on both sides of a quarto leaf of grey laid paper. Watermark '1875'. ff. 4, 4b.
Quarto; ff. ii+4.
includes:
- ff. 1-2 Edward Fitzgerald, translator of Omar Khayyám: George Borrow, writer: Letter to George Borrow from Edward Fitzgerald: 1857.
- ff. 3-4b Edward Fitzgerald, translator of Omar Khayyám: Translations of portions of Aeschylus The Persians, and The Libation Bearers by Edward Fitzgerald: n.d. and aft. 1875: Autogr. drafts. Fragms.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Ashley Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001978147
040-001979406 - Is part of:
- Ashley MS A17-5768 : Ashley Manuscripts
Ashley MS 3217 : Letter from Edward Fitzgerald to George Borrow; 24 May 1857. Printed in The Letters of Edward Fitzgerald, ed. A. M. Terhune and A.… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001978147[0727]/040-001979406
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Ashley MS A17-5768
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1857
- End Date:
- 1857
- Date Range:
- 24 May 1857
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Borrow, George, writer
Fitzgerald, Edward, poet and translator, 1809-1883