ALS in verse to Richard Shackleton (1728-1792), 1744.

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ALS in verse to Richard Shackleton (1728-1792), 1744.

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Manuscript, in a single hand, of three letters in verse from Edmund Burke to Richard Shackleton. One letter begins, "You find me as good as my Promise, in sending some more of my Rhimes to Trouble you...What I send you here is a Day of my Life after the manner I usually spend it, I have put it in Verse for 2 Reasons, the Chief and principal of wch is to engage you to answer it [in] Like manner." At the conclusion of a poem about the sea, he writes, "Here I send you a motley Piece of Verse...to be taken after a walk to the New road, to whet your stomach be taken to digest what you got in Meeting Like Sweetmeats after Solid food. (Or Rather Pickles.)" The volume also includes a poem, in the same hand, whose first line is "The Silent shade was always the retreat," addressed "To John Dame, Esq. By the same," and dated July 1747.

1 v. (12 p.) ; various sizes.

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