Autograph Letter Signed, "Rd Dublin", to an unnamed correspondent.

Author: 
Richard Whately.
Publication details: 
Palace, 22 August 1853.
£120.00
SKU: 1997

Archbishop of Dublin, logician and misc. writer (1787-1863). Eight (8) pages, 8vo, laid down, good condition. He commences "I did not give any general advice to my Clergy because there c[oul]d not be any that . . ."he explores views on the system education at length. He says what he would advise. "As for my own school, it is just closed, owing to the P.P. having forbidden the Mistress to use the Scr. which had been used there from the first opening of the school". He quotes a relevant letter from The Times. He discusses this letter (including "no breach of faith was ever committed while I was Comr").He goes on, " . . . & the introduction of this new course of procedure was, as you are aware, the cause of my protest & removal". He gives his permission for his views to be made known.