BIB_ID
453898
Accession number
MA 14595
Creator
Ord, John Walker, 1811-1853, sender.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 21.9 x 17.9 cm
Notes
A letter fragment consisting of the final page of the letter text, trimmed, with Ord's signature, and with the address panel on verso.
Address panel postmarked with remains of seal reads: London / Eighth Month four 1835 / To Wm Tait Esq / Princes St / Edinbro.
Address panel postmarked with remains of seal reads: London / Eighth Month four 1835 / To Wm Tait Esq / Princes St / Edinbro.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Praising (Thomas) De Quincey's recent contributions to Tait's Edinburgh Magazine and asking why he doesn't "indulge more in the composition of works - things of weight and labour [that] may spread his fame more durably over posterity"; thanking Tait for his "honest, manly, and generous review" of one of Ord's poems.
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