FROUDE (James Anthony, 1818-1894, Historian)

Long Autograph Letter Signed to Martin saying he has unwillingly “left your note too long unanswered. I liked the verses well - if not very well. I wanted a second opinion so I sent them to Allingham - who as you know is now helping me with the Magazine. I have had no answer from him, so you must kindly make my apologies to the lady. In all likelihood the MS is gone to the Press. I shall know in a day or two. I publish so little Poetry... when I make an exception it is exceptionally criticised. I hope you have better weather than we have, after two more protactedly lovely summers... the storms have settled down upon us & wind & rain & waves are trying their worse to wash away the Peninsula on which we are living. If we survive we shall be in London in 3 weeks... It is our last season here...” he continues about his landlord taking the property back for himself and his bride, explaining the problems with the property and saying that “after a season I expect he will invite us to return. A thousand thanks for the Horace, which however I fear is waiting for me in Onslow Gardens...”, signed on the first page, 4 sides 8vo., Kinnare, 20th October no year

Froude was a historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of Fraser's Magazine. From his upbringing amidst the Anglo-Catholic Oxford Movement, Froude intended to become a clergyman, but doubts about the doctrines of the Anglican church, published in his scandalous 1849 novel The Nemesis of Faith, drove him to abandon his religious career. Froude turned to writing history, becoming one of the best-known historians of his time for his History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armad.

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Stock No:  41968      £125

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