[Manuscript copy of 'The Confederate Translators' and 2 ALS to John Payne Collier]

[Manuscript copy of 'The Confederate Translators' and 2 ALS to John Payne Collier]

Author: Anonymous / Croker, John W. (John Wilson)

Year: 1850

8vo. pp. 2. Anonymous poem of thirty-three lines. First published by John Payne Collier in his An old man’s diary, forty years ago. London, 1871, I, pp. 101-102, and there attributed by him to Alexander Pope; earlier, in the manuscript continuation of 'History of English Dramatic Poetry' (Harvard), he had claimed it for John Gay, and it is most likely simply an anonymous manuscript of the early 18th century. See John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, p. 1334. pp. 4. Letter referring to some papers recently returned to Collier, and commenting at length on Collier’s remark that Croker must look back with reluctance to his early struggle for a seat in Parliament: ‘I look at it with no other regret than that it cost me first & last £9000’, and ‘If I had been of age I should have been in Parliament in 1800, but I was forced to decline a seat then.’ 8vo. pp. 2. Letter with which Croker returns the ‘Confederate Translators’ manuscript to Collier and says that ‘I have no doubt that it is Pope’s autograph, tho’ rather less neat than his earlier & less free than his later hand.’ Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.