BIB_ID
116894
Accession number
MA 205.3
Creator
Steevens, George, 1736-1800.
Display Date
London, England, 1780 October 27.
Credit line
Purchased, 1896.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 22.6 x 18.8 cm
Notes
Written from "Hampstead heath."
Address panel reads, "Dr. Samuel Johnson, / Brighthelmstone."
Formerly housed with the manuscript of Samuel Johnson's Life of Pope; for more information see main record for MA 205.
Address panel reads, "Dr. Samuel Johnson, / Brighthelmstone."
Formerly housed with the manuscript of Samuel Johnson's Life of Pope; for more information see main record for MA 205.
Provenance
Purchased from the London dealer Sotheran, 1896.
Summary
Explaining the discrepancy in the sums paid by Alexander Pope to his two translators Elijah Fenton and William Broome (for their work on Pope's translation of Homer's Odyssey): "I was once told (by Spence or Dr. Ridley) that Pope complained he had more trouble in the revisal of a single book translated by Broome, then with all that were executed by Fenton"; going on to observe that manuscripts of Fenton's translations of the Odyssey, now in the British Museum, show minimal corrections by Pope, although he did notably change the opening line of the first book; conveying the respects of Dr. Burney to Johnson in a postscript.
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