BIB_ID
196503
Accession number
MA 14461
Creator
Ford, Richard, 1796-1858, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1851 March 27
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.6 x 11.2 cm
Notes
Addressed to: Mrs. T. Hughes.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Returning Charles Kingsley's novel Yeast to her and expressing his strong hatred of and opposition to the prospect of democracy ("I prefer even the despotism of an asiatic king, to the degrading disgusting rule of the Yankee mob"), adding that he almost wishes he had not read the book, acknowledging Kingsley to be a "powerful writer", and adding various critical observations n the book.
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