Part of a letter from Thomas Chatterton to Horace Walpole lions the German Empress

the German Empress

Its simple but imaginative design made the most of resources in post-war France

Malcolm Allison

but was taken seriously ill with scurvy on the return to the expedition's base

Effigy of Jeremy Bentham with his embalmed head

Part of a letter from Thomas Chatterton to Horace Walpole lions the German EmpressPart of a letter from Thomas Chatterton to Horace Walpole, late 18th century, (1840). The letter is an account of his pretended discovery of Rowley's poems. Illustration from Historical and Literary Curiosities consisting of Fac similies of Original Documents, by Charles John Smith, (Henry G Bohn, London, 1840).