Lady Morgan’s Memoirs
James Devlin to Lady Morgan, [August 1828]
Dublin,
Thursday.
Madam,
Finding that I may expect no benefit from
my poetry, and feeling that I must use some exertion to get myself
out of the difficulties my want of employ has involved me in, I
again take the liberty of troubling your Ladyship, requesting,
should Sir C. Morgan want
any articles in the way of my business (a gentleman’s boot
and shoe-maker) that he would do me the kindness of favouring me
with a trial, confident, should he do so, of my ability to give
satisfaction.
I remain, your Ladyship’s
Obliged and most obedient servant,
James Dacres Devlin (1855 fl.)
Shoemaker and poet; a member of the Chartist movement, he published a number of pamphlets
in London in the 1840s and 50s.
Sir Thomas Charles Morgan (1780-1843)
English physician and philosophical essayist who married the novelist Sydney Owenson in
1812; he was the author of
Sketches of the Philosophy of Morals
(1822). He corresponded with Cyrus Redding.
