BIB_ID
316074
Accession number
MA 1005.3
Creator
Southey, Robert, 1774-1843.
Display Date
1812 Mar. 27.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1924.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and addressed to "John Wilson Croker, Esq / &c &c &c."
Part of a collection of letters from Robert Southey to John Wilson Croker. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
The poem Southey refers to is "The Battles of Talavera" by John Wilson Croker and published in 1810.
Part of a collection of letters from Robert Southey to John Wilson Croker. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
The poem Southey refers to is "The Battles of Talavera" by John Wilson Croker and published in 1810.
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr. from E.H. Wells in 1924.
Summary
Thanking him for "Talavera,-- a poem which has been one of the most successful of modern times, or indeed of any times;" adding "You have done for Arthur Wellesley what none of his contemporaries could do for Marlborough."
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