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Letter from William Bodham Donne, London, to Frederick Walpole Keppel, 1854 September 9 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
416581
Accession number
MA 14050.33
Creator
Donne, William Bodham, 1807-1882, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1854 September 9.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.3 x 11.1 cm + envelope
Notes
Written from "12 St. James Square."
On light blue paper.
Stamped and postmarked envelope 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).
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Informing him that he will be at Swaffham and proposing to come and visit the Keppels at Lexham; remarking facetiously on the appearance of one of his employees who recently returned from Germany with "palpable symptoms of Germany upon him" in the form of a full beard, with a small humorous sketch illustrating his subject.