BIB_ID
414540
Accession number
MA 1581.181
Creator
Smith, William, 1730-1819.
Display Date
Bury St. Edmunds, England, 1817 November 5.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1959.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.5 x 18.5 cm
Notes
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. See collection-level record for more information (MA 1581.1-297).
This letter was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Smith) 4.
Address panel with postmarks and seal to "Sir George Beaumont / Coleorton Hall / Ashby de la Zouch."
Date of writing from postmark.
This letter was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Smith) 4.
Address panel with postmarks and seal to "Sir George Beaumont / Coleorton Hall / Ashby de la Zouch."
Date of writing from postmark.
Provenance
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Summary
Sending him birthday greetings; beginning with "My wine is nine year's old - the best! / The Toast, the toast will ever stand the Test / Tis Beaumont's Birthday - Friendships speak the rest;" trusting he "...will have conquer'd the common prejudice of the Grand Climacteric;" commenting on his time in Newmarket.
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