Accession number
PML 146391.91
Creator
Blacket, Joseph, 1786-1810.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Year of writing deduced from contents of letter: Joseph Blacket arrived at Seaham in August of 1809, where he died on Aug. 23 of the following year.
Addressed on address panel of p. 4: Mr. Clarke[?].
Part of a large collection of prints, drawings, and letters bound into an extra-illustrated copy of Thomas Moore's Letters and journals of Lord Byron (PML 146390-97); assembled by collector David Langton and formerly in the possession of John Dillon and Gordon Ray.
Addressed on address panel of p. 4: Mr. Clarke[?].
Part of a large collection of prints, drawings, and letters bound into an extra-illustrated copy of Thomas Moore's Letters and journals of Lord Byron (PML 146390-97); assembled by collector David Langton and formerly in the possession of John Dillon and Gordon Ray.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 23.1 cm
Provenance
David Langton; John Dillon; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Describing the poor state of his health, the attentive care he has received at Seaham at the hands of the Milbanke family, and his high opinion of the character and intellectual achievements of Miss [Anne Isabella] Milbanke, as well as her success in securing subscribers for his upcoming volume of verse. He concludes with a further account of his frail health and asks the recipient to commend him to various persons to whom he is too feeble to write at the present time.
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