Letter from William Bodham Donne, Bury St. Edmunds, to Frederick Walpole Keppel, 1852 January 22 : autograph manuscript signed.

Remarking upon an "obnoxious quotation" from Love's labour lost, evidently repeated by Col. "Tiger" Smith and expressing his opinion that Smith must have come by the couplet in a book on "indigestion & diet" ("Depend upon it disease made him so far learned."); commenting on the publication of Lord Albemarle's book, and wondering at "a peer, who may live in peace, voluntarily undergoing the pains of authorship"; remarking on attacks made on himself in the Daily news and Bell's life by enemies who have been attacking him by name as Examiner of Plays, and stating that they are doing him a service in proving to Lord Breadalbane "that his deputy is wide awake"; directing Keppel to read the an attack on (Dr. Henry?) Phillpotts in the Edinburgh review, adding "it is capital. Our morals are in a flourishing state here : last night we had an address from a physician, which if it were not atheistical, was uncommonly like it."