Letter from William Bodham Donne, Norwich, to Frederick Walpole Keppel?, between 1830 and 1843 : autograph manuscript signed.

Regretting that they were at Mattishall and thus missed seeing the recipient at Bank Street, asking that he represent Donne by proxy, if possible, when he petitions in favor of the Poor Laws; inquiring as to the general opinion in London regarding the prospect of a dissolution of Parliament, mentioning a report on the training of pauper children sent to him by Dr. Kay and its potential use in the Gressenhall Schools, remarking on the success of two local clergymen, "Sedgwick and Sidney", who have been "astonishing the farmers in the neighborhood of Acle by lecturing on soils, drainage and agricultural chemistry", and expressing his regret that he does not possess the scientific background to do likewise; suggesting that the inmates of the local "Union" might benefit from access to cheap educational publications, and that he might teach the boys "a little of the principles of geometry."