Commonplace book, [18–?].
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CMV33130
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RTC01 (no. 73)
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Commonplace book, [18–?].
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49374702
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Incipit Diplomatic:
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In Voltaire’s Hand:
Brief Summary:
A commonplace book compiled by Walter Savage Landor.
Detailed Summary:
Contains Landor’s thoughts and opionions on various aspects of life and literature. There are comments on old age, on Napoleon, and on a host of writers and poets including Shakespeare, Milton, Tennyson, Pope, Byron, Wordsworth, Gibbon, Sterne, Coleridge, Otway, and Voltaire. There are also passages on Elizabethan poets, and on the progress of poetry in general, with a tribute to Sir Walter Scott.
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Physical Description
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22 ff.
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240 x 200 mm
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1
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The commonplace book has been revised throughout. The bookplate of W.A. Foyle of Beeleigh Abbey has been added to the MS.
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History
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Ownership:
Owned by Robert Browning and W.A. Foyle.
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Provenance:
Originally from the Robert Browning papers, sold at Wellington Street in 1913 with a note on the flyleaf by the purchaser (dated 21 July 1913) that states that the manuscript was unbound at that time. Part of the Robert H. Taylor collection of English and American literature, 1280s-1950.
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