Accession number
PML 146388, leaf 041
Creator
Beaumont, George Howland, Sir, 1753-1827.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Item mounted on leaf 41 of v. 12 of an extra-illustrated copy of D.E. William's The life and correspondence of Sir Thomas Lawrence (London : Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831).
First line of Beaumont's poem reads: The dreadful hour is come - is come - & past / that gentle sigh, dear mother was thy last.
First line of Beaumont's poem reads: The dreadful hour is come - is come - & past / that gentle sigh, dear mother was thy last.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.6 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Asking Roger's "unbiased opinion" of a poem written as an epitaph for his mother, the text of which follows.
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