Item 209 - Letter from George Bancroft

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London - 'Alas! for human nature that there should be such a tale to be told! but the French inhabitants of Acadie were transplanted like the Jews from Judaea' [the forced expulsion of these people from Nova Scotia under Newcastle's administration in the 18th century]. GB sends WW his account of the events [possibly connected with WW's forthcoming work 'Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie', Fraser's Magazine 37, 1848]. He would have liked to heard WW 'on hypothesis; the a priori pursuit of truth, such when tested at once by facts & experience'.