BIB_ID
416318
Accession number
MA 14050.18
Creator
Donne, William Bodham, 1807-1882, sender.
Display Date
Bury St. Edmunds, England, 1847 May 26.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.5 x 11.3 cm
Notes
Written from "Westgate St."
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
Proposing to visit him at Lexham Hall and asking if he might have a bed for the night; referring to "a most portentous account of a Jew on the Queen's high-way stabbing [Rev. Thomas] Paddon's white charger" he has heard recently, and asking if it is true, and expressing his opposition to the prospect of Jewish emancipation; making some observations on local politics and the Whig prospects for winning West Norfolk in the next election, adding that the "Dissenters at Dereham and elsewhere" seem to be "behaving abominably" and expressing the opinion that "if the Jews on the highway would take to stabbing them, instead of the successors of the Apostles, they should do some good."
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