Letter from Walter White
Reference code
SAL/01/02/40/22
Title
Letter from Walter White
Date
1848
Level of description
item
Scope and content
Discussing terminology, specifically the phrase ‘the sleeve’, used to describe the English Channel in a piece published by Henry Ellis. He likens the phrase to a French satirical print produced during the Napoleonic era playing on the French use of ‘La Manche’ to describe the body of water and the image of the Emperor struggling to get one arm through a sleeve.
Mentioned in the minutes for 7 December 1848: https://collections.sal.org.uk/sal.02.039.104
Mentioned in the minutes for 7 December 1848: https://collections.sal.org.uk/sal.02.039.104
Creator
White, Walter (1811-1893), writer