BIB_ID
81140
Accession number
MA 9217
Creator
Campbell, Thomas, 1777-1844.
Display Date
1833 September 25.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 19.5 x 17.7 cm
Notes
With a note on the verso: "Letter of Campbell / author of Pleasures of Hope &c."
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of Thomas Campbell, The Life of Mrs. Siddons (London: Effingham Wilson, 1834); PML 34397-34398; volume I.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of Thomas Campbell, The Life of Mrs. Siddons (London: Effingham Wilson, 1834); PML 34397-34398; volume I.
Summary
Apologizing for not having responded earlier to his correspondent's two letters; writing that he has just received the "legacy of the Pole which has very painfully affected me"; explaining that the cause of Polish independence "has so occupied my time till a few months past -- & so exhausted my purse not only by direct contributions to the Exiles but by consuming my time & putting a stop to the pursuit of my private business -- that in the present state of my finances I have really not the means of communicating any money to the poor mother of this Patriot"; adding that he has spoken of her to Colonel Leicester Stanhope and promising "if I can get anything from him I will transmit it to you."
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