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To Mr Lucas. Written while sitting to him for my Portrait. December, 1825

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To Mr Lucas. Written while sitting to him for my Portrait. December, 1825

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To Mr Lucas. Written while sitting to him for my Portrait. December, 1825

Poet(s)

Mitford, Mary Russell

Credits

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 26:160, 966, December 1829.

First line

Oh! young and richly gifted! Born to claim

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

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Notes and attribution research

Poem included in the unsigned prose contribution Monologue, or Soliloquy on the Annuals (948-76), by John Wilson (Wellesley Index) (KF, SP).

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 10396

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Alison Chapman (ed.) and the DVPP team, “To Mr Lucas. Written while sitting to him for my Portrait. December, 1825,” Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project, Edition 0.98.10beta , University of Victoria, 30th April 2025, https://dvpp.uvic.ca/blackwoods/1829/pom_10396_to_mr_lucas_written_while.html.

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