[Edward Bouverie Pusey, Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford and a leading figure of the Oxford Movement.] Autograph Letter Signed to [Henry James Coleridge or John Duke Coleridge] regarding nursing arrangements.

See Pusey's entry in the Oxford DNB, along with those of the Coleridge brothers and (perhaps tangentially) Robin Schofield, ‘Sara Coleridge and the Oxford Movement’ (2020). 2pp, 12mo. Twenty-seven lines, in a close hand, rather difficult to decipher. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded twice for postage. Addressed to ‘My dear Coleridge’ and signed ‘E B Pusey’. What follows is a tentative transcription. ‘On hearing from your brother of the condition of dearest J. Rd & Mrs. Ks. nurse, I wrote to the [Devonport?] mother, who empowers me to offer to your brother that she would [?] from into the Hospital at Ascot for life if she should be a happy and [?] inmate. She said that she should grudge to any one else the care of the nurse of one who had been so kind to her, and whom she loved so much. Your brother was pleased with the offer, but, on enquiry, found that she was provided for.’ What follows is somewhat unclear. ‘It seems great waste to raise £100 when it might be done out of love alone, most heartily[.] The Div. Mother was very sorry that she only heard of Anne F’s condition, when arrangements were already completed. She felt it as a loss, not to have the care of her[.]’ After a difficult passage with another reference to ‘Devonport’, the letter concludes: ‘I have no happy memories about Dr. [Leet?]. I that [sic] he did a good deal of harm, by never believing us’.