BIB_ID
107432
Accession number
MA 9949
Creator
Cumberland, Richard, 1732-1811.
Display Date
Royal Tunbridge Wells, England, undated.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 23.9 x 19.5 cm
Notes
Cumberland gives only "Thursday" for the date of writing, and the postmark does not include a date.
Address panel with postmark: "Sir James B. Burges &c / &c / Beauport / Battle / Bye Post."
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of John Forster, The life of Charles Dickens (London: Chapman and Hall, 1872-1874); Call number: 509 D548 F.
Address panel with postmark: "Sir James B. Burges &c / &c / Beauport / Battle / Bye Post."
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of John Forster, The life of Charles Dickens (London: Chapman and Hall, 1872-1874); Call number: 509 D548 F.
Summary
Saying that he has recently undergone a trial that nearly exhausted his strength; adding that he is now settled with his daughter and son-in-law (the Jansens): "Visitors have occupied every forenoon, and as soon as ever an early dinner is over, I regularly turn out with the corps, and climb up to the cricket ground with the rheumatism in my back, and a heavy stricture on my breast with cold upon cold, and cough upon cough. My pen, which us'd to be an amusement, is now become painfull to me to use, and I loll and loiter away my time in taking snuff and doing nothing;" saying that he hopes Burges will visit them on his way to town; mentioning their mutual "Master" and saying "He has put me to the expence of a new Uniform, which I shall not live to wear out in his service;" saying that Lord Mulgrave has given his son command of a fine ship, which is due to sail immediately for the Baltic; sending his respects and those of his daughter and son-in-law to Lord and Lady Burges.
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