Record ID:
414617
Accession number:
MA 1581.174
Credit:
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description:
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.3 x 11.6 cm
Notes:
The person who composed and wrote out these verses has not been identified.
With an epigraph from King Lear.
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 108.
This manuscript is from a large collection of letters written to Sir George Howland Beaumont (1753-1827) and Lady Margaret Willes Beaumont (1758-1829) of Coleorton Hall, and to other members of the Beaumont family.
Summary:
Consisting of a poem of twenty-three lines on the subject of cropping (possibly referring to the cutting of hair), written in response to a poem by Uvedale Price; ending with the lines "As the more Cats, the fewer Mice: / So the more Crops, the fewer Lice."
Provenance:
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
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