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Document Reference	Pw V 345
Title	MS poem, entitled 'Farewell to London 1714', by Alexander Pope; n.d. [post 1714]
Date	(1714 post)
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Text consists of thirteen 4-line verses. Endorsed in the hand of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford, 'Mr P____ private'. The date given in the title appears in later publications as 1715.
Title Of Work	Farewell to London 1714
First Line of Poem	Dear; Damnd, distracting Town Farewell
Last Line of Poem	And so may Starve with me
Language	English
Physical Description	One sheet folded once to form two folios Physical match: Pw V 334 (dimensions) & Pw V 341 (dimensions) & Pw V 342 (dimensions) & Pw V 343 (dimensions) & Pw V 344 (dimensions) & Pw V 345 (dimensions) Physical match: Pw V 346 (dimensions) & Pw V 347 (dimensions) & Pw V 348 (dimensions) & Pw V 349 (dimensions)
Condition	Good
Descriptive Features	Watermark: Arms of Great Britain within crowned garter and cartouche under garter with 'Semper Eadem', 118 x 80 mm Countermark: Royal Cipher, crowned GR, 35 x 28 mm
Watermark	Arms of Great Britain
Related Material	Index, ELM III, PoA 177
	British Library: MS Harl. 7316, ff 193v-94v
	University of Nottingham Library:
	University of Nottingham Library:
Publication Note	St James's Chronicle 14-16 Sept. 1775
Publication Note	Ault and Butt (eds), The Poems of Alexander Pope (1954) vi, pp 128-32.

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA893	Harley; Robert (1661-1724); 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer; M.P.; speaker 1701-1705; P.M. 1711-1714	1661-1724
NA1123	Pope; Alexander (1688-1744); poet	1688-1744

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