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Letter from William Bodham Donne, London, to Frederick Walpole Keppel, 1857 September 9 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
416585
Accession number
MA 14050.34
Creator
Donne, William Bodham, 1807-1882, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1857 September 9.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.4 cm
Notes
Written from "9. The Grove, Blackheath."
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
Thanking him for the gift of some books and a ham and describing his work as the inspector of theaters and saloons in London ("a most troublesome and dirty piece of work"); commenting on his recent move to his new home in Blackheath, a recent court case he was party to, the elevation of (Thomas Babington) Macaulay to the peerage, a letter received from his son in India, the current Indian rebellion, and the death of Lady Walsham.