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45 - To Thomas Bond, London, 16 December 1772

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 December 2024

Oliver Goldsmith
Edited by
Michael Griffin  and
David O'Shaughnessy
Michael Griffin
Affiliation:
University of Limerick
David O'Shaughnessy
Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin
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Thomas Bond was a lawyer who operated from Mountrath Street, Dublin, behind the Four Courts. Balderston identifies Bond as probably the ‘connection of the family by marriage’, mentioned by Prior (I: 17), who purchased the estate of Lissoy from Goldsmith's nephew Henry in 1802. Here we can see continued evidence of Goldsmith's concern for his nephew, William Hodson.

The copy-text is the manuscript in the Houghton Library, Harvard University. It was first published in Dobson's Life of Goldsmith (1888). It was addressed to ‘Mr. Thos. Bond Attorney in | Montrath-Street | Dublin’, and postmarked 21 December.

Temple. Brick Court. December 16 1772.

Dear Sir,

I received your letter, inclosing a draft upon Kerr and Company which when due shall be applied to the discharge of a part of my Nephew's debts He has written to me from Bristol for ten pound which I have sent him in a bank note enclosed he has also drawn upon me by one Mr. Odonogh for ten pound more, the balance therefore having paid his servant maid, as likewise one or two trifles more remains with me. As he will certainly have immediate and pressing occasion for the rest when he arrives I beg youl remit the rest to me and I will take care to see it applied in the most proper manner. He has talk’d to me of a matrimonial Scheme. If that could take place all would soon be well. I am Dear Sir your affectionate Kinsman

and humble Servant.

Oliver Goldsmith.

Be pleas’d to answer this directly.

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The Letters of Oliver Goldsmith , pp. 109
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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