[William Boyd Carpenter, Bishop of Ripon and chaplain to Queen Victoria, complains of his 'demoralizing' workload.] Autograph Letter Signed ('W. B Ripon') to 'Marian', explaining how pressure of work makes it impossible to meet.

3pp., 12mo. Bifolium with mourning border. Aged and grubby. Written with purple pencil. He begins by thanking her for the 'letter & two Photographs', and is 'looking forward some day to see my god child whom the photographs picture as very bonny'. He is 'obliged to write on the train & to use this ugly pencil', and thinks there is little chance of his 'seeing you, or anyone else', as he has 'incessant work & numberless engagements till the middle of Novr.' After that he hopes 'to go somewhere and get a bit of quiet as the long journeys & constant preachings & talkings are most unsettling and, I almost think demoralizing – I have travelled more than 900 miles since the beginning of this month & I have given 10 Sermons & Speeches – The bliss of silence & stillness I hope to attain next month somewhere'.