BIB_ID
416306
Accession number
MA 14050.4
Creator
Donne, William Bodham, 1807-1882, sender.
Display Date
Norfolk, England, 1843.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.2 x 11.4 cm
Notes
Year and place of writing deduced from internal evidence.
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).
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
Recounting a meeting with two local members of an (unspecified) committe; explaining that his wife has been too ill to allow them to leave Norfolk; remarking on a lecture he gave recently on behalf of the Mechanics Institute; and complaining of the many setbacks and vexations he has experienced during the current year (i.e., "this blessed '43").
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