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Issue Details: First known date: 1804... 1804 Words on Banishment -- Pope to Atterbury
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Notes

  • According to a letter from Grant to Sir Henry B. Hayes (a copy of which is included in Grant's journal entry of 27 January 1805), this poem was versified from a prose letter written by Alexander Pope to Atterbury. The letter contained 'Advice from a Philosopher to a Banish'd Man going into Exile'.
    (Source: This Beauteous, Wicked Place : Letters and Journals of John Grant, Gentleman Convict. John Grant, edited by Yvonne Cramer.)

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Author note: versified sometime in 1804 at Parramatta -- John Grant. This letter of Pope is to be seen in 'Maver's short-hand writing' at Cadell, Strand.
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