First lines: 'Behold he cook'd a feast they could not eat / And they shall eat a feast he did not cook'. Appears in a scrapbook created by J. W. Clark, now in Cambridge University Library, as the work of W. J. Lawrance; said to be a parody of a poem by F.W.H. Myers which won the Chancellor’s English Medal at Cambridge in 1861.
Wenlock Abbey, Shropshire.
23 Dorset St, Portman Sq. W.
With printed illustration of Virgin, doves and star formed of two triangles and a cross, and text 'Anno Dominae'.
Signed "for Mr Parkes". Includes a copy of a letter from J. E. Drinkwater to Joseph Parkes, 15 Sept. 1833, and a draft of a letter from Francis Palgrave to Joseph Parkes, 17 Sept. 1833.
(Undated. The postmark is dated 6 June 1803.)
(The caption is ‘A. P. Decandolle. Professor of Botany at Montpellier.’)