On the death of a favourite cat drown'd in a china-tub of gold-fishes : autograph fair copy of the poem, [ca. 1757].

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On the death of a favourite cat drown'd in a china-tub of gold-fishes : autograph fair copy of the poem, [ca. 1757].

Poem written after the drowning death of Selima, one of Horace Walpole's cats.

1 item (2 p.), unbound ; 15.7 cm.

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