Letter from Edward A. Freeman, Northampton, to Henry Thompson, 1847 August 6 : autograph manuscript signed.

Writing that "the only thing the [Oxford Architectural?] Society can do is to grant a set of its publications to the Bishop", adding that he suspects "we could do more good by suggesting improvements on a design made to suit local requirements than by starting an original one", and directing him to write to [Henry James?] Coleridge the Librarian for the books; going on to write that they had a pleasant time in Oxford where they witnessed the "bedoctorment of divers Bishops"; discussing the Oxford election and asking Thompson why he is a supporter of Lord Feilding, and noting that while his wife's brother says like Thompson that Feilding is "not the Protestant he seems", he is as a candidate "surely nothing but no Popery and the Record" and asking "Besides ought a man of no distinction whatever to represent an University?"; mentioning that he is "working hard at Hindoo temples", reviewing (George) Grote's History, "and reading Xenophon's Anabasis for the first time."