BIB_ID
157519
Accession number
MA 4452
Creator
Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896.
Display Date
London, England, 1867 February 5.
Credit line
Purchased, 1969.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 17.7 x 11.2 cm
Notes
Written from "91 Great Russell St. / 5 Feb. 1867."
The salutation reads "Dear B & E, & likewise Co."
Bradbury & Evans & Co. were the publishers of "Punch."
The salutation reads "Dear B & E, & likewise Co."
Bradbury & Evans & Co. were the publishers of "Punch."
Provenance
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1969.
Summary
Being a humorous poem of 20 lines saying "Without more ceremony, / My thanks on you I do bestow / For sending of the money! / Hurray for every Saturday! / I guess that I shall one day / appreciate that 'ere latter day / as much as any Sunday : But if there is a day, I ween / which I think the least worst day / It is the day that comes between / The Tuesday & the Thursday; Yea! that's the day that has the pull / In making of me joyous, / For then I fills my belly full / and meets my kyind employers! / So may we all live long to work / & eat & drink together / My duties will I never shirk / nor feel these bonds a tether / Yes to this here arrangement may / you never be more sorrier / Than him what signs himself today / Yours truly / George du Maurier."
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