BIB_ID
416309
Accession number
MA 14050.11
Creator
Donne, William Bodham, 1807-1882, sender.
Display Date
Mattishall, England, 1845 December 9.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.5 x 11.6 cm
Notes
Year of writing suggested by 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
Concerning local tensions among the inhabitants of Norwich over the Corn Laws, and his impression that "the Times lies, and the crisis is at hand", his own ill health, and Carlyle's recently published edition of Oliver Cromwell's letters (Oliver Cromwell's letters and speeches, London : Chapman and Hall, 1845).
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