A Mourning Ditty: On the Conflagration of Harvard Hall in Cambridge New England. On the 24th Day of January 1764, [1764]
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31/12/1969
31/12/1969
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| Resumo |
One-page handwritten copy of "A Mourning Ditty" signed "Philomusus Or A lover of the Muses"describing in a classical style the burning of Harvard Hall. The transcription is signed "Correctly Translated from the Printed Copy, by Peter Thacher." Thacher's translation is of the Latin poem "Threnodia" that appeared on the front page of the Massachusetts Gazette on February 2, 1764. |
| Identificador |
HUC 8762.324.2 Box 1, Folder 8 http://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/view/50402943?width=150&height=150&usethumb=y http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.ARCH:14028570 http://colonialnorthamerican.library.harvard.edu/prod/cna/hua08011c00011 |
| Publicador |
Harvard University Archives |
| Relação |
Harvard University Archives: Student compositions of Jeremy Belknap, 1759-[1764]-->III: Composition of Peter Thacher [1764] |
| Direitos |
The Student compositions of Jeremy Belknap are open for research. |
