![]() ![]() Surrounding this is a brief summary of Heber’s life before he went to India, and of his family, including his half-brother Richard, the great book-collector, and his formidable widow, Amelia, as well as an account of his travels in India up to the moment of his sudden and widely lamented death in 1826. For that reason, it has been reproduced in complete facsimile, accompanied by a page by page transcript of the text. The news that he sent was probably the first to reach not just Harriet but his wider circle after his arrival.Įverything about it suggests that Heber took particular care with the writing, in both senses, of his letter. Heber, creature of his own time, is full of missionary hopes but equally fascinated by the personalities and characters of those he met. The landscape and natural history of Bengal, the human figures, both Hindu and Islamic, as well as newcomers from Europe, are all vividly recorded. ![]() As a picture of the country and its peoples, depicted by a keen but sympathetic observer, it makes compelling reading, all but two centuries after it was posted home. It was to them, and in particular his cousin Harriet Wrightson, that soon after his arrival the Bishop wrote a very long letter, recording his first impressions of India and illuminating its leaves with his own sketches. In 1823, newly consecrated Bishop of Calcutta, he set off, with wife and family, leaving behind a host of friends. Despite a growing reputation as a scholar, a poet and writer of still popular hymns, an artist and authority on Russia, friend of Byron and Scott, given wit and irresistible charm and goodness, Heber could not resist the evangelical call. 'I do not expect that with fair prospects of eminence at home, you should go to the Ganges for a mitre,’ wrote Sir Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, President of the Board of Commissioners for Indian Affairs, in 1819 to Reginald Heber at Hodnet in Shropshire, but in vain. The design and production are by Phil Cleaver, et al consultants. The edition is limited to 150 copies of which 40 have been bound in red levant morocco and cloth for the Roxburghe Club and 110 bound in Fedrigoni Tintoretto Ceylon Curry paper by Smith Settle, Yeadon. The paper is Munken Lynx Rough, made by Arctic Paper s.a. The ‘Letter’ was photographed by Julian Calder and has been reproduced and offset printed by DLM Creative, Amersham. The editorial texts have been set in Monotype Caslon and printed from metal type by Stanley Lane, Gloucester Typesetting. Maggs Bros., 48 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3DRīernard Quaritch Limited, 36 Bedford Row, Holborn, London WC1R 4JHĮmail: A Letter from India, written in 1824 by Reginald Heber. These are available for sale, usually through the antiquarian bookdealers listed below. Additionally a member can print up to 300 copies of the title usually bound in cloth. Normally, not more than 42 copies are printed in this form. ![]() In the list of members of the Club, each recipient's name is printed in red ink. Each member of the Club receives a copy bound in half calf. Roxburghe Club publications are produced in two states. Enter either a sale item name or price to search the database: ![]()
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