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Document number: 3010
Date: 21 Nov 1834
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: TORRE Nicholas L
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA34(MW)-131
Last updated: 30th July 2010

4 Connaught Square
London 21 Novr 1834

Sir

The enclosed <1> Specimen of a Latin Version of the celebrated Irish Melodies <2> is respectfully submitted to your notice, under an impression that it may not be devoid of interest to a scholar, as a Classical Introduction – I beg leave to direct your kind attention to the accompanying List of my present Subscribers, the high respectability of whose names encourages me to hope that I may be allowed to include your own among the number for a Copy of my forthcoming little Volume <3>

I shall greatly esteem your indulgent compliance with my humble request on this occasion, and feel much obliged by the favour of an early communication according to my present address

I have the honour to be, Sir, Yr very obedt Servt
Nicholas L Torre
formerly Lay Fellow of New College Oxfd

To
W. H. Fox Talbot Esq M P.
&c &c


Notes:

1. Enclosure not located.

2. Thomas Moore’s major poetic work Irish Melodies (1807–1834).

3. Probably his collaboration with Thomas Moore Cantus Hibernici (Londini: R. Glynn, 1835).