Letter from William Bodham Donne, Bury St. Edmunds, to Frederick Walpole Keppel, 1848 September 1 : autograph manuscript signed.

Apologizing for not having written and attributing his negligence to a recent death in the family and a paucity of news from his usual sources in Norfolk; mentioning that he met Keppel's brother, Arnold Keppel, and that he drove past Keppel's gate at midnight last July while visiting his sons in Castle Rising, with an account of his stay there and the hospitality of "Mrs. Howard's agent"; describing the alms house for widows there as "an old woman's paradise", and mentioning that he tried on one of the resident's hats, described as "of the best beaver, and not like our foolish tiles keeping off neither sun nor rain, but high, broadbrimmed and delicately insinuating that the wearer was, then or formerly, a witch ... I who am no conjurer might, so attired, cut a good figure in Macbeth, for example." (illustrated with three sketches in ink, the first showing an 'old bedes-woman of Cstle Rising' in a tall, wide brimmed hat, and the other two showing himself 'in similar circumstances'")