BIB_ID
414548
Accession number
MA 1581.184
Creator
Smith, William, 1730-1819.
Display Date
Bury St. Edmunds, England, 1818 June 30.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1959.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.8 x 18.9 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) 7.
Address panel with postmarks and seal to "Sir George Beaumont / Coleorton / Ashby de la Zouch."
This letter was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Smith) 7.
Address panel with postmarks and seal to "Sir George Beaumont / Coleorton / Ashby de la Zouch."
Provenance
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Summary
Discussing Francis Wrangham who is visiting him and comparing his politics to those of Smith's friend, John Tweddell, Wrangham's academic rival at Cambridge who died in Athens in 1799; including a poem titled "To a friend who yesterday enquired how the State of Health of 'his old Boy (his usual Phraze) at 88 stood - June - 1818; beginning with the line "Dear Friend, your Old Boy" and ending "Tho' of Pleasures bereft / Calm comforts are left / In my friends & affections at home / Then hence with despair / I trust Heavens care / for Bliss in his Kingdom to Come; signing the poem with his initials and adding "When prose is dull & Poetry run mad, the best I can offer are respects & Lady Beaumont & yr Honor from wife & self."
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