TRACTS AND THE CRIMEA TAYLER (Rev. Charles Benjamin, 1797-1875, Writer of Religious Manuals for the Young)

Long autograph letter signed to 'My dear Madam', about his story 'The Soldier', his publisher (Smith & Elder) owns the remaining copies but he has now borrowed one, "to see if it would do for circulation in our army" in the Crimea, he will have to alter "the end about the duel", he is hoping the (Religious) Tract Society will accept "The Password; a Soldier's Tale", written "expressly for our Soldiers", if so he will be "delighted" to send her copies, "Pray remember me ... to Mrs Roberts and Dr Edwards ... Is Lady Caroline still with him?", the Poem sent by his correspondent "does much credit to the young authoress", Dr Camming's sermon "The Place of Duty" draws on "the letters of young Harry Anstruther who was shot through the heart at Alma, and the letters of his sister's husband Captain Kinloch about him. I know the Parents Sir Ralph and Lady Anstruther ... sister to General Torrens, who was also shot through ... at Inkerman ... within an inch and a half of his heart ... but ... is recovering and anxious to go again to the war, as is Sir Ralph's elder son ... home fearfully ill from Varna", talking further of their feelings for son Harry, her correspondent can get copies of "The Soldier" if she writes to Mr Smith, General Egerton's widow told him that "having been in Spain during the war she could testify to ... my descriptions", adding in a P.S. "the death of Chancellor Raikes" (Henry, 1782-1854, nephew of Robert Raikes, the founder of Sunday schools), has been as "of a dearest relation", 8 sides 4½" x 3½", Otley Rectory, near Ipswich, Suffolk, 16th April



Item Date:  1855

Stock No:  54194      £275

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