BIB_ID
416582
Accession number
MA 14050.40
Creator
Donne, William Bodham, 1807-1882, author.
Display Date
England, 1844.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.2 cm
Notes
Caption title.
Nicholas I visited London in the summer of 1844, where he was greeted in the press by expressions of anti-Russian sentiment inspired by widespread public indignation at the suppression of the attempted of 1830-1831 revolution in Poland.
Manuscript of the poem numbered "No. 1" at upper right of first page; accompanying cover note inscribed "No. 2" at upper right.
Nicholas I visited London in the summer of 1844, where he was greeted in the press by expressions of anti-Russian sentiment inspired by widespread public indignation at the suppression of the attempted of 1830-1831 revolution in Poland.
Manuscript of the poem numbered "No. 1" at upper right of first page; accompanying cover note inscribed "No. 2" at upper right.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Satirical poem styled as Robert Peel's response to the alleged hostile public reception given to Czar Nicholas as he rode up Regent Street; with a 1 page postscript in verse by Donne explaining that the source of his (evidently erroneous) information concerning the alleged incident was Mr. P. Gurdon "Who told me on Friday the Czar had been hooted riding up Regent Street Riding up Regent Street, whiskered and booted; and that some of the hooters had picked certain holes In his character, crying 'Long live the Poles!'", and that the Marquis of Northampton had remonstrated with the public in some of newspapers to refrain from publicly attacking the Czar out of respect for the Queen; adding in his note, "I made up, upon Mr. Gurdon's assertion The lines which I send to you for your diversion; But in future I'll always remember this hint And wait for my news till I see it in print."
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