Manuscript of 'I dug beneath the cypress shade' by T. L. Peacock

Single Item

Shelfmark: MS. Don. d. 82

Held at the Weston Library

Manuscript of 'I dug beneath the cypress shade' by T. L. Peacock, printed in Works (London, 1875), and (fols. 2-5) letter from Peacock to Jane Gryffydd, 1819, with her reply.

Dates

Creation: 1819-1875

Extent

5 Leaves

Language of Materials

English

Preferred Citation

Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MS. Don. d. 82, fols. 1-2]

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Shelfmark:

MS. Don. d. 82

Collection ID (for staff)

CMD ID 16949

Additional Description

Abstract

Manuscript of 'I dug beneath the cypress shade' by T. L. Peacock

Biographical / Historical

Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866), was an English satirical novelist and poet.

Other Finding Aids

M. Clapinson and T. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991). Vol. 1, no. 39046

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Bought from Kathleen H. Thorpe and Elinora B. Clarke and given by the Friends of the Bodleian, 1943.

Bibliography

Peacock's letter is printed in Sir Henry Cole, Thomas Love Peacock, biographical notes from 1785 to 1862 [London, 1875], 19-20, and C. C. Van Doren, Life of Thomas Love Peacock (London, 1911), 143-4.