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Two sets of notes, comments, etc. (the one being a duplicate of the other) [by the Reverend Robert Potter] on translations into English of the Isthmian, Nemean, Olympic and Pythian odes of Pindar, which he had been requested to check and revise. With these notes is a copy of a letter sent by [the Reverend] R[obert] Potter from Scarning [co. Norfolk] to the Right Hon[ourable] Ch[arle]s Townshend, Stanhope Street, May Fair [London], 1 Feb[rua]ry 1779, in which the writer expresses his willingness to help the recipient's friend The Right H[onoura]ble Hans Stanley, by revising a translation of Pindar upon which he was working at the time. These notes, etc., are probably the result of the promise made in the letter. Stanley is known to have been preparing a translation of Pindar's odes when he died in 1780 [see D.N.B.].
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The description is also available in the Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IV (Aberystwyth, 1971).
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Formerly known as Wigfair 81.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 12481C.
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- Stanley, Hans, 1721-1780 (Subject)
- Pindar, 522 or 518-438 B.C. Odes -- Translations into English. (Subject)
- Potter, Robert, Rev. (Subject)
- Townshend, Charles, Baron Bayning, 1728-1810 (Subject)