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NLW MS 5664C
Title
Selina Fitzroy Birch: Translation
Date(s)
- 1779 (Creation)
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A translation, with several sketches and some decorative borders, by ten-year-old Selina Fitzroy Birch, of a work on the antiquities of Athens. It was dedicated, November 1779, by the translator to Mrs Thrale, afterwards Mrs Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741-1821), after their meeting in Tunbridge Wells, October 1779.
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- French
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French
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See The Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay (Frances Burney), 1890 ed., Vol. I, pp. 150-3.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 5664C
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vtls004371092
GEAC system control number
(WlAbNL)0000371092