BIB_ID
281920
Accession number
MA 1581.6
Creator
Ashburnham, George Ashburnham, Earl of, 1760-1830.
Display Date
Needham Market, 1808 December 30.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.8 x 18.5 cm
Notes
Address panel with intact seal and postmark: "Sir George Beaumont Bart / Dunmow / Essex."
Ashburnham gives the place and date of writing on the address panel ("Needham December thirtieth 1808") and signs himself as "St. Asaph" there as well. Ashburnham had an estate, Barking Hall, near Needham Market.
This letter is from a large collection of letters written to Sir George Howland Beaumont (1753-1827) and Lady Margaret Willes Beaumont (1758-1829) of Coleorton Hall and to other members of the Beaumont family.
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Ashburnham) 1.
Ashburnham gives the place and date of writing on the address panel ("Needham December thirtieth 1808") and signs himself as "St. Asaph" there as well. Ashburnham had an estate, Barking Hall, near Needham Market.
This letter is from a large collection of letters written to Sir George Howland Beaumont (1753-1827) and Lady Margaret Willes Beaumont (1758-1829) of Coleorton Hall and to other members of the Beaumont family.
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Ashburnham) 1.
Provenance
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Summary
Saying that he wanted to improve on "that beautiful Impromptu of yesterday" and, since he does not have time to alter the second stanza, he would like instead to substitute six new lines; explaining "I think they make the Pun more intelligible, & otherwise have somewhat more Point"; giving the lines, which begin "But if Anne prove unkind...".
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