| Content Description | Text, which consists of 10 lines, has an indecipherable cancellation on l 6, with marginal insertion 'vale' in the hand of Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford.
Last 3 words of epitaph partially survive on torn paper above the title, and suggest that the page may also have once contained a draft of the text.
Identified as Pope's autograph in letter from Robin Flower, British Museum to Francis Needham, Welbeck Abbey, July 1935 (See Pw V 1634).
Inscribed on a monument to the poet Elijah Fenton at Easthampstead, Berks. |