BIB_ID
416311
Accession number
MA 14050.9
Creator
Donne, William Bodham, 1807-1882, sender.
Display Date
Mattishall, England, 1845 April 18.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 15.3 x 10 cm
Notes
Year of writing suggested by internal evidence, including Donne's reference to the 1845 controversy surrounding the passing of the Maynooth College Act, approving a cash grant from the British government to a Catholic seminary in Ireland.
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
Discussing national politics, including his concern that the controversy over the Maynooth Grant might prompt Peel to retire and "bring in the Whigs prematurely", fearing that "He would retire with credit : they would come into a mess : and the country is not ripe for them", and expressing his dread of the general election which would result; thanking Keppel for th loan of some books, and discussing the selection of a librarian for the University at Cambridge, noting that his friend [John Mitchell] Kemble would have "had a fair chance of success" if he hadn't lacked the advantage of being a clergyman (Kemble was passed over for the post in favor of Joseph in 1845); mentioning various articles that have appeared recently in the literary journals, and notifying Keppel that there is to be a "great meeting" held in Norwich in opposition to the Maynooth Grant.
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