[Rev. Thomas Farr, traveller in Spain during the First Carlist War.] Autograph Letter Signed, presenting Dawson Turner with a copy of his ‘Reminiscences’, and Spanish autographs, and referring to the ‘finest gallery in the world’ and other matters.

See the entry for the recipient Dawson Turner in the Oxford DNB. Farr’s entry in ‘Alumni Cantabrigienses’ reads as follows: ‘FARR, THOMAS. Adm. pens. (age 18) at TRINITY, Apr. 8, 1814. S. [and h.] of Thomas. B. at Beccles, Suffolk. School, Bury St Edmunds (Mr Malkin). Matric. Michs. 1814; B.A. 1818. Ord. deacon (Norwich) June 17, 1821; priest, Mar. 3, 1822 ('T. Farr, the younger'). Travelled in Spain during the Carlist War, 1S35-7. In 1S38 published A Traveller's Rambling Reminiscences of the Spanish War, in which he defends De Lacy and the British Legion. Died Feb. 8, 1855. Buried at Cheltenham. (Bury St Edmunds Gr. Sch. List; C. R. Hudleston.)’ Farr also published three economic pamphlets: ‘A Remedy for the Distresses of the Nation’ (1840), which elicited a response from Sir Francis Place, and ‘A Short Statement of Facts connected with the proposed Changes in our Commercial Tarif [sic]’ and ‘The Principal Difficulties of the Sliding Scale removed’ (both 1841). The present item is 2pp, 4to, on the first leaf of a bifolium, on the reverse of the second leaf of which is written ‘To / Dawson Turner Esq / Yarmouth.’ In good condition, lightly aged and worn. Folded for postage. Addressed to ‘My Dear Sir’ and signed ‘Thomas Farr’, with a strange flourish at the end of the signature. Twenty-six lines of text, in a crabbed and not entirely legible hand. He begins by stating that he is sending him ‘a letter of General A [Alanas?] written in answer to one giving him the details of the capture of Irun by Genl Evans - La Gentille Reverende alludes to Mrs Phips the wife of Mr P who was & is now resiging at Tours - she is a pretty woman & fond of dress - as General A writes a most extraordinary hand, I have sent you a copy with the original’. He is also sending ‘a note of Evans’s should you think it worth preserving - when I was in Madeira a Catalogue had not been printed of the Dutch and Flemish Schools, so you will find no account of the fine Teniers Vandykes & Rubens that are beautifully arranged in the finest gallery in the world’. He is sending a ‘copy of the Lithographic work’, the ‘only one taken in this country’ being ‘in the name of the President of the Royal Academy’, which he asks Turner to keep ‘until I have the pleasure of seeing you again’. ‘I have to beg your acceptance of my “Reminiscences of the Spanish War”, asking him to send a second copy to his ‘aunt Farr’. He is on his way to Baden-Baden, and wonders if he can procure for Turner ‘some autographs of the Bonaparte family from Hen. R. H. the Dowager Grand Dutchess, who is a niece of Josephines’ there. A four-line postscript refers to a lettter without a postmark, and the British Consul at Bayonne.