A notebook with a manuscript copy of John Cunningham's Elegy on a pile of ruins (London: printed for H. Payne and W. Cropley, 1761), with a translation of the same into Latin. There is also a copy of a letter To Christopher Anstey, Esq., from The Translator [? the Rev. Leonard Chappelow ]. In 1762, Anstey had translated Gray's Elegy into Latin.
John Cunningham'sElegy on a pile of Ruins(with Latin translation)
This material is held atUniversity of Manchester Library
- Reference
- GB 133 Eng MS 657
- Dates of Creation
- n.d. [c 1760s]
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English and Latin
- Physical Description
- 193 x 154 mm. 1 volume (13 folios + 28 blank);