Record

RefNoHSF/1/2/52
Previous numbers600/31/186
LevelItem
TitleLetter from J MacGregor, to Mrs [Caroline Amelia Mary] Gordon [née Herschel]
CreatorMacGregor; J
Date16 November 1866
DescriptionMacGregor is greatly pleased with the present of Homer, which Mrs Gordon and the General [Alexander Hamilton Gordon] sent him [?]. It was got from London quickly, as if Gordon had 'been served by the Messengers of Olympus'; Thetis could not have got it sooner. He hopes that her 'nice boys' were not frightened by the respirator which he had been wearing to get rid of a cold. He has read over some of 'The Iliad' and her father [Sir John F W Herschel] is inimitable in some passages. His version will be the most readable and popular of all translations. Lord Derby's is fine, but he makes his goddesses scold each other as if barrack women. Andromache's appeal to Hector is more touching. He hopes his patient is getting on well and that the bone is consolidating.
Extent4p.
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
AccessStatusOpen
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