BIB_ID
416315
Accession number
MA 14050.45
Creator
Donne, William Bodham, 1807-1882, author.
Display Date
England, 1846.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 22.1 x 18 cm
Notes
Title from first two lines of text.
Signed "V.Q.(?)" (Victoria Queen?) and dated Osborne House (i.e., Victoria and Albert's royal residence in East Cowes, Isle of Wight) June 27th 1846.
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).
Five stanzas of satirical verse, being a parody of the traditional song "Johnny's So Long at the Fair", being Queen Victoria's imagined lament over the resignation of Robert Peel as Prime Minister, on June 29, 1846, following his highly publicized conflicts with Benjamin Disraeli over repeal of the Corn Laws.
Signed "V.Q.(?)" (Victoria Queen?) and dated Osborne House (i.e., Victoria and Albert's royal residence in East Cowes, Isle of Wight) June 27th 1846.
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).
Five stanzas of satirical verse, being a parody of the traditional song "Johnny's So Long at the Fair", being Queen Victoria's imagined lament over the resignation of Robert Peel as Prime Minister, on June 29, 1846, following his highly publicized conflicts with Benjamin Disraeli over repeal of the Corn Laws.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
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