BIB_ID
401635
Accession number
MA 13596
Creator
Buckle, Henry Thomas, 1821-1862.
Display Date
[1859] April 20.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages.) ; 17.9 x 11.2 cm
Notes
Written on black-edged mourning stationery.
Year of writing suggested by the concluding reference to Justice Coleridge and Buckle's involvement, via the pages of Fraser's magazine, in the controversy surrounding the case of Thomas Pooley, who had been sentenced to twenty-one months' imprisonment by Sir John Coleridge for writing offensive words about christianity.
Year of writing suggested by the concluding reference to Justice Coleridge and Buckle's involvement, via the pages of Fraser's magazine, in the controversy surrounding the case of Thomas Pooley, who had been sentenced to twenty-one months' imprisonment by Sir John Coleridge for writing offensive words about christianity.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Enclosing a proof of one of his writings with numerous corrections and insisting upon seeing another revision by the next day; stating that he will remain in town until Friday in order to finish the job, "and then you will only have to send to Brighton a proof of the last three pages and the Greek notes"; enclosing the Greek notes and requesting that they be returned with revisons by Thursday; asking that "copies of Fraser" be sent to Mr. Sandars, Mr. FitzJames Stephens and Mr. [Charles] Kingsley; with a postscript added to the head of page one evidently responding to an editorial suggestion: "I cannot alter the passage about Coleridge - the mischief he has done is a thousand times greater than any punishment which I or anyone can inflict on him-on reading over the proof I feel fresh indignation."
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