BIB_ID
107604
Accession number
MA 3919
Creator
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
Display Date
1744 May 10.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund as a special gift of Mrs. Alan Valentine, 1983.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 19.9 x 18.5 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmark: "Mr. Richd Shackleton / in / Ballitore / per / Killcullen Bridge." Also on the address panel are the initials "E.B.", possibly in Burke's hand.
The sheet has been cut at the bottom and text is clearly missing, though it is unclear how much.
The sheet has been cut at the bottom and text is clearly missing, though it is unclear how much.
Provenance
Acquired at Bloomsbury Book Auctions (1983 November 30, lot 146) from the London dealer Quaritch. Purchased on the Fellows Fund as a special gift of Mrs. Alan Valentine.
Summary
Telling Shackleton that he had stopped by the house of "Mr. [Michael] Kearney" to see him, but found that Shackleton had already left for Ballitore: "p[er]haps you're now thinking that the next word that comes out will be, With all the marks of Wild despair, I tore my flowing Robes & rent my hair, bid woods & rocks be Witness of my Grief, & gods & men implor'd to my releif &c, &c, &c, & such like stuff w[hi]ch people are apt to father upon Apollo & the Muses tho', God knows, that several children are calld by the Names of those that never got 'em, nor did I faint but very calmly said as usual that I was supriz'd at the suddenness of y[ou]r Departure, was sorry for it, got my Wig & went to the College"; listing what he has been assigned to read at Trinity College, so that Shackleton can read along with him, including "the 9 first Chapters of Burgersdiscius, ye 6 Last Æneids of Virgil, the Enchiridion of Epictetus w[i]th the Tabula Cebetis"; concluding "I have no more to say because to tell the Truth, I have scarcely any subject to talk upon...".
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