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THOMAS ARNOLD

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THOMAS ARNOLD
<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>THOMAS ARNOLD </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'>(1795-1842). English educator, preacher, and classical historian; Father of Mathew Arnold. Author of <i>History of Rome</i>, <i>History of the Later Roman Commonwealth</i> and an edition of <i>Thucydides</i> (1835). His unpopular political and theological views prevented an appointment to Oxford until 1841. ALS, 1¼pp, 4to, Rugby, Sep 5, 1832. On letter paper to the Rev. J. G. Hewlett regarding his application to lecture at Rugby on the abolition of slavery. In part, “<i>I lose no Time in replying to your Letter...I need not say that my Sanction to any Lectures delivered in Rugby can only be needed on two Points; one, for allowing our School Rooms to be used as the Place of Meeting; and the other for encouraging the Attendance of the boys. Now the first part of these I make it almost, and the second quite an Universal rule, not to do. My Sanction therefore...I must decline giving;—and with Regard to personal Attendance, the Time of most of my Friends s well as my own is sufficiently occupied...And to confess the Truth; the Question of the Extinction of Slavery in our colonies is one of such great Difficulty and Delicacy...that I would far rather trust the Matter in the Hands of the present Government whose liberal Dispositions none can doubt</i>...” Addressed on integral leaf in his holograph. VG. Neatly inlaid. Accompanied by lithograph portrait.</span></p>