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| Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D8760/F/FEP/3/14 |
| Former Reference | D3311/150/2 |
| Title | Manuscript copy of poem entitled "On Christmas Day", a poem by William Thompson, in the handwriting of Eleanor Anne Porden |
| Date | [early 19th cent] |
| Description | Poem dated only 25 Dec; seemingly published in the Morning Herald; with note on later hand saying that believed to have been composed by E.A. Porden, afterwards E.A Franklin and it was in her writing.
Actually published as a poem by William Thompson in Volume XV of "The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper" (1810), on page 27 under the title of "The Magi: A Sacred Eclogue", with the first line "No more in Beauty's praise my numbers move".
Found inside published volume "The Veils" by Eleanor Anne Porden (as at D8760/F/FEP/4/2) |
| Extent | 1 sheet |
| Level | Item |
| Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
| Archive Creator | Eleanor Anne Porden, later Eleanor Franklin (1795-1825) |
| Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth |