Item 591 - Letter from Kenelm Henry Digby to John Henry Bohte

1 single sheet

This letter was purchased in 2018 from Richard Ford Ltd, dealers in books, printed ephemera, and manuscripts. It was sent at some point between 1816, when Kenelm Henry Digby became a student at Trinity, and 1824, when John Henry Bohte died. There is no indication of the letter's intervening provenance.

Richard Ford Ltd

'Broadstone of Honour' has been annotated in pencil at the foot.

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Transcript

upon arriving at Cambridge Mr Digby finds that only the 1st volume of Kant's works had been sent to Will's Coffee House. He writes to request that Mr Bohte will forward the remaining three to him at Trin. Coll. Cambridge.

Jan. 13.
Trin. Coll.
Cambridge

This description was created by I. David in 2025.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry for Kenelm Henry Digby (online)
Norbert Schürer's review of 'An Ocean of Literature: John Henry Bohte and the Anglo-German Book Trade in the Early Nineteenth Century' by Graham Jefcoate in Studies in Romanticism, Volume 62(2) 2023.