Imitations from Horace : No. 2 : Sir George Gipps to Lord Stanley single work   poetry   "Good men, my Lord - for Governors are but men -"
Note: The initials 'G. G.' are those of George Gipps. The letter is fictitiously written in Gipps's hand.
Issue Details: First known date: 1845... 1845 Imitations from Horace : No. 2 : Sir George Gipps to Lord Stanley
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Notes

  • At head of poem: His Excellency informs his Noble correspondent, that 'good men' ... are those who can govern a Colony with the actual presence of fixed bayonets...
  • '[Gipps] asks to be sent to govern some other colony.' - Webby

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    y separately published work icon The Atlas vol. 1 no. 24 10 May 1845 Z1571607 1845 newspaper issue 1845 pg. 278
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