Letter from William Bodham Donne, Bury St. Edmunds, to Frederick Walpole Keppel, 1846 August 29 : autograph manuscript signed.

Explaining that he has been too busy with work and the renovation of his new home to write sooner ("I have been since you saw me a carpenter, an upholsterer, a traveler, a schoolmaster, a scribbler, and a lawyer ... I find myself up to the chin in a routine of work which is 'never ending still beginning.' I were a lost man had I not kept up my Greek and Latin."; noting that he has been seen by three different doctors and commenting facetiously on their evident prosperity ("This is an evil omen for the general public. They cannot thrive in a healthy state of things."); and describing in humorous terms the local clergyman ("Our clergyman is really a fine performer - damns us all liberally - and has so good and so well managed a voice and such appropriate action that I am tempted to think Nature intended him for the service of Satan, ie. the theatre") and his recent dealings with three lawyers; mentioning that he has received visits from his new neighbor, Sir John Walsham, that he has arranged to have the Examiner driven to Bury by his recipient's brother, Arnold Keppel, and noting that Rev. Reginald Buller lives within six miles of his new residence.