BIB_ID
101396
Accession number
MA 1649
Creator
Hood, Thomas, 1799-1845.
Display Date
London, England, 1840 November.
Credit line
Gift of DeCoursey Fales, 1955.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.8 x 11.5 cm
Notes
Written from "8 South Place / Camberwell New Road."
The letter is undated however according to a note in the published letter cited below the review to which Hood refers was published in The Athenæum on November 7, 1840.
Miss Lawrance was an historian, journalist and novelist and published her two-volume "Historical Memoirs of the Queens of England" in 1838.
The letter is undated however according to a note in the published letter cited below the review to which Hood refers was published in The Athenæum on November 7, 1840.
Miss Lawrance was an historian, journalist and novelist and published her two-volume "Historical Memoirs of the Queens of England" in 1838.
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of DeCoursey Fales, 1955.
Summary
Concerning her writing and his health; saying "Pray accept my best thanks for your handsome Volumes which from your known research, taste, and ability will be sure to afford me some very interesting reading so soon as my leisure will permit me such enjoyments. In the mean time my little girl has begun to make acquaintance with the Queens as eagerly as if they were fine 'live ones, in their Birthday plumes. By an odd coincidence I lately alluded to you in a review of Humphrey's Clock in the Athenæum so that to speak annualish, your Books however welcome as Keepsakes were not necessary as Souvenirs. As regards my return to England - & let me thank you for your kind congratulations - it has probably lengthened my days. Change has visited me as well as my old neighbourhood, only that instead of being built upon I have been pulled down. My health has been so shattered in foreign parts that it would not be a bad bargain for me to change constitutions even with Spain. A long course of absolute Pythagoreanism & totalism, only lately relaxed has shrunk me from an Author to a Pen - and a very bad one to mend. In such fast go-ahead times as the present it is my peculiar misfortune to be tormented by slow fever - induced by my residence in Flanders - with, from the same course, a dash of ague in whatever ailment befals me - and when it rains I sympathize with the damp like a salt-basket. On these accounts, I keep house so closely that my most extravagant outgoings do not exceed a journey to town about once in two months. Otherwise it would give me much pleasure to call in Vincent Terrace - Turks as the inhabitants must be to have conquered Rhodes. It may happen for you, nevertheless, to come someday in this direction in which case, speaking for 'self & Partner' we shall be most happy to see you. The New Road leads from Camberwell Common to Kennington Ditto - & we are uncommonly near the centre from each. We are sure to be here, or in the vicinity for some time to come because my case requires watching & my friend Dr. Elliot resides on Denmark Hill."
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