BIB_ID
104470
Accession number
MA 9595
Creator
Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823.
Display Date
undated.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 16 x 18.1 cm
Notes
Kemble gives only "Thurs Morn" as the date of writing.
The letter has been mounted with the address panel, which is addressed to Mrs. Inchbald. It includes a mostly intact red wax seal and the words "with a book."
From Letters and Portraits of Eminent Persons, 1832.
The letter has been mounted with the address panel, which is addressed to Mrs. Inchbald. It includes a mostly intact red wax seal and the words "with a book."
From Letters and Portraits of Eminent Persons, 1832.
Summary
Writing "Dear Sir, Madam, I mean, I send you a Volume of Mr. Bayle's Dictionary; and beg you will read four articles with as quick Dispatch as you can"; listing the articles as those on Urbain Grandier, Helen, Héloïse, and Isabella "Zonzaga" (probably Gonzaga), and giving the relevant page numbers; saying that he has been "running your whole Person over this half hour, yet cannot find out what the thirty Perfections of Beauty are that were in Helen"; writing that he enjoins her to try, "and give me the Catalogue; for I'm sure you'll understand the verses better than I do."
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