BIB_ID
416323
Accession number
MA 14050.21
Creator
Donne, William Bodham, 1807-1882, sender.
Display Date
Bury St. Edmunds, England, 1847 August 19.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.6 x 11.1 cm + envelope
Notes
Year of writing from postmark.
Postmarked envelope with seal, stamped with an unperforated penny red, addressed: F.W. Keppel Esq / Lexham Hall / Litcham / Norfolk /; with the address struck out and corrected to read: 19 Duke Street / St. James's / London.
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).
Postmarked envelope with seal, stamped with an unperforated penny red, addressed: F.W. Keppel Esq / Lexham Hall / Litcham / Norfolk /; with the address struck out and corrected to read: 19 Duke Street / St. James's / London.
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 the local canvassing for votes and asking how Keppel's own canvassing is progressing; discussing the local election and the difficulties of organizing and funding a committee or an agent to carry out the necessary work of canvassing and campaigning; mentioning a notice in the Bury Post praising a speech he recently gave at "the farmer's table", saying tha he was "sorry to hear of Mr. Thomas Keppel's misadventure with Benjamin Francis", and noting that he found (Rev. Thomas) Paddon "in extreme ill-odour at Mattishall", being said to have "shaken people into voting for him."
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