Thomas William Parsons letter and poem, ca. 1850.

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Thomas William Parsons letter and poem, ca. 1850.

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The collection consists of two items: a letter to M. Ballou and a manuscript poem with the title, The king in Thule. The letter, from Beacon Hill, 25 June (no year), thanks M. Ballou for sending the author a poem, and congratulates him on the effort. Also, ms. poem, in six stanzas, undated. The poem relates the sentimental anecdote of a king who values a goblet given to him by a dead mistress.

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Parsons, Thomas William, 1819-1892

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Thomas William Parsons (August 18, 1819, Boston – September 3, 1892, Scituate, Massachusetts) was an American dentist and poet. Parsons was educated at the Boston Latin School, and visited Italy to study Italian literature in 1836-7. His translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, which eventually comprised all the Inferno, two-thirds of the Purgatorio and fragments of the Paradiso, began to appear in 1843. After practicing dentistry in Boston, he lived for several years in England before returning...

Ballou, Moses, 1811-1879

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