BIB_ID
196138
Accession number
MA 13985.1
Creator
Delane, John Thaddeus, 1817-1879.
Display Date
[1855] January 15.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 items (4 pages) ; 18.6 x 11.6 cm
Notes
Year of writing suggested by internal evidence, including refererences to the Crimean War.
Watermarked "1854."
Addressed from "Serjeant's Inn."
One of a collection of 4 letters addressed by John Thaddeus Delane to Alexander William Kinglake (MA 13985.1-4).
Watermarked "1854."
Addressed from "Serjeant's Inn."
One of a collection of 4 letters addressed by John Thaddeus Delane to Alexander William Kinglake (MA 13985.1-4).
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Inquiring after Kinglake's health and recent illness, relating news of colleagues and correspondents writing from the Crimea, including (Austen Henry) Layard, (William Howard) Russell, and (Sir John) Burgoyne; noting, in a postscript, that Kinglake is "suspected of having written a very bad book 'A month before Sebastopol'; the real culprit being a certain Bushby [i.e., a reference to Henry J. Bushby, author of: A month in the camp before Sebastopol, published London : Longman, 1855]."
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