BIB_ID
130593
Accession number
MA 8908
Creator
Bathurst, Allen Bathurst, Baron, 1684-1775.
Display Date
1746 May.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 12.0 x 16.5 cm
Notes
The footnote refers to refers to the English playwright Nathaniel Lee (1653-1692) who spent five years in Bedlam Hospital.
Thomas Southerne died May 26, 1746.
Thomas Southerne died May 26, 1746.
Summary
Being an autograph poem of twelve lines on the death of Thomas Southerne and with references to his contemporaries Dryden, Betterton, Lee and Congreve; referring to Nathaniel Lee in the poem as "poor Nat" and including a footnote saying "Nat Lee. Mr. Southern in a L'tr published a few years ago, giving him this Epithet ['poor Nat'] & says it was bestowed on him by all his friends after he had the misfortune of loosing his Senses."
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