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Ode to "Merry Christmas" / by a gentleman in trouble : autograph manuscript signed with initials.

BIB_ID
416357
Accession number
MA 14050.26
Creator
Donne, William Bodham, 1807-1882, author.
Display Date
Bury St. Edmunds, England, 1849 January 5.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 23.1 x 18.1 cm + envelope
Notes
Title from item.
Date and place of writing from postmark.
Postmarked envelope with seal, addressed: F.W. Keppel Esq / Lexham Hall / Litcham / Norfolk.
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).
Comic poem in ten numbered stanzas upon the hardships and miseries of the Christmas holiday season.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.