[‘What stirring times these are!’ Eliza Lynn Linton, novelist and pioneering woman journalist.] Autograph Letter Signed, asking Sir Richard Temple to find employment for ‘one of the cream of the Indian Civil Service’, H. A. Acworth.

According to her entry in the Oxford DNB, Eliza Lynn Linton moved to Malvern in 1895. (See also Temple’s Oxford DNB entry.) 4pp, 16mo. Bifolium. Sixty-six lines of closely-written text. The two leaves of the bifolium have been separated, and re-attached with archival tape; resulting in slight loss to some text on the third page, otherwise in fair condition, lightly aged. Folded once. Signed ‘(Mrs.) E. Lynn Linton’. While he may not recall that she had the honour of being introduced to him by ‘Mr. Gedge’ in the House of Commons, she does, and she is writing to ask if he has ‘any offices to give to a man you know, & one of whom we English may be justly proud - Henry Acworth, the Municipal Commissioner of Bombay & the founder of the Matunga Asylum for Lepers - the Translator of the Ballads of the Marathas & one of the cream of the Indian Civil Service’. After pointing out Temple’s acquaintance with the Acworths, she explains that Acworth has now settled at Malvern Wells, and is ‘far too vigorous & strong a man to be unemployed’. He would be angry if he knew she was writing to Temple, but she does not like ‘to see such fine qualities as his lying waste’. She continues in praise of Acworth, before exclaiming, ‘What stirring times these are! - I have the feeling of holding my breath in anticipation -’.