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Part 2, Folio 25. A brief manuscript with the text of a poem [entitled 'An Amorous...

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Reference SP 35/68/127
Date [1740 - c 1760]
Description

Part 2, Folio 25.

A brief manuscript with the text of a poem [entitled 'An Amorous Old Man', by the Scot David Mallet alias David Malloch, who was appointed in 1742 as under-secretary to Frederick Prince of Wales], but here described as 'verses by Lady M__y W__ly [Lady Mary Wortley Montagu] pinned upon the picture of Cha__s Ch___ll [Charles Churchill] at Van Loo's [Van Loes]' [Dating note: Jean-Baptiste van Loo painted Charles Churchill in 1740]'.

Held by The National Archives, Kew
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English

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