1806

Anna Beddoes to Davies Giddy, 30 March 1806

Of many a dainty flower
A garland I will weave
All wet with tears a welcome shower
For sore my heart did grieve [1]

1806 March the 30th
    DG[2]

Address: Davies Giddy Esq MP [3] / 6 Boyle Street / Savile Row / London
Postmark: BRISTOL / MAR30 / 6 / 122 // FREE / MAR31 / 1806

Notes

[1] The context for this poem was the quarrel that resulted when Giddy, early in 1806, accused Anna of withholding her love and wished for freedom. In 1808 Anna remembered ‘What I suffered two years ago both in mind and body was too severe for me ever to forget, — from some thoughts – from some scenes I turn myself with violence yet they again recur and with bitterness that I have no words to express’.

[2] This note has been added by Giddy.

[3] Giddy had been elected to parliament in 1804 and again in 1806: he was now the MP for Bodmin, in Cornwall.