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Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to J. W. Parker, undated [ca. 1852].

BIB_ID
299586
Accession number
MA 7324.2
Creator
Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875.
Display Date
undated [ca. 1852].
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (6 p.) ; 18.6 cm
Notes
Hypatia first appeared serialized in Fraser's Magazine beginning in 1852.
Part of a collection of 13 letters from Charles Kingsley to his publisher J. W. Parker. Letters have been described individually in 13 catalog records (MA 7324.1-13); see collection-level record for more information.
The book of sermons here referenced is likely his Sermons on National Subjects (London and Glasgow: John J. Griffin and Richard Griffin, 1852).
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Declining Parker's offer to publish a series of sermons and discussing his intention have them published by "the Scotsman" instead. Referencing an offensive article in Frasier's Magazine, noting that he "cannot allow that page to go forth in the same Magazine with any writings of mine without a very strong & peremptory explanation of my own opinions about it." Alluding to the publication of Hypatia.