BIB_ID
416314
Accession number
MA 14050.16
Creator
Donne, William Bodham, 1807-1882, sender.
Display Date
Bury St. Edmunds, England, 1847 February 11.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.4 x 11.5 cm + envelope
Notes
Year of writing from postmark.
Written from "Westgate St."
Postmarked envelope with seal, stamped with an unperforated penny red, and addressed: F.W. Keppel Esq / Lexham Hall / Litcham / Norfolk / W.B.D.
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).
Written from "Westgate St."
Postmarked envelope with seal, stamped with an unperforated penny red, and addressed: F.W. Keppel Esq / Lexham Hall / Litcham / Norfolk / W.B.D.
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
Reporting that he will be taking brief trips during the school holidays and will plan on visiting Keppel at Lexham should he travel to Swaffham; noting that he recently made the acquaintance of a "clerical curiosity" in the person of a "son of Crabbe the poet" (presumably George Crabbe, 1785-1857, son of the poet of the same name), who, he observes, "abominates verses of every kind" and "equally hates Moses ... he preaches against him and cries out against him in the streets and in large companies, and, if he can not find, makes occasion to bear his anti-Mosaic testimony"; relating the recent discovery of the antiquary Sir Harris Nicholas that none of the Wodehouse family were at Agincourt; with some observation on local and national politics.
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