BIB_ID
416298
Accession number
MA 14050.1
Creator
Donne, William Bodham, 1807-1882, sender.
Display Date
Norwich, England, 1840?
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.4 x 11.4 cm
Notes
Written from "Bank Street / Norwich."
Year of writing suggested by internal evidence and by the date "[1840]" written in pencil at head of page 1.
Forms part of a collection of 49 letters and poems addressed by William Bodham Donne to his friend, Frederick Walpole Keppel, of Lexham Hall, Litcham, Norfolk (see MA 14050.1-49).
Year of writing suggested by internal evidence and by the date "[1840]" written in pencil at head of page 1.
Forms part of a collection of 49 letters and poems addressed by William Bodham Donne to his friend, Frederick Walpole Keppel, of Lexham Hall, Litcham, Norfolk (see MA 14050.1-49).
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Explaining that the weather has prevented him from visiting; responding to a previous question by Keppel concerning the "expenses of authorship" ("I therefore desired Jarrolds to send in the bill for printing the 'Rural Police.' But as he mixed it up with my other accounts with him, I have extracted the items for you."); confirming that he will be forwarding him the "British and foreign review", and noting that the forthcoming number contains some remarks by himself concerning the "quarrel now going on between Catholics and Protestants ... inserted in a review of Hallam's History of Literature"; recommending that he purchase a copy of Dr. (Leopold von) Ranke's history of the Popes (i.e., The ecclesiastical and political history of the popes of Rome during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / by Leopold Ranke ; translated from the German by Sarah Austin. London : J. Murray, 1840); and noting that the latter two volumes of de Tocqueville's Democracy in America are out, and that they are "full of wise thoughts applicable to the present turn of the world towards an unaristocratical state of society."
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