[Rev. Dr Thomas Chalmers.] Proofs of a chapter of Rev. William Hanna's memoirs of his father-in-law Rev. Thomas Chalmers, with deleted material including the texts of six letters to his daughters, not present in the published book. (or elsewhere)

Author: 
William Hanna (1808-1882), son-in-law of Rev. Dr Thomas Chalmers (1780-1847), theologian, economist and leader of the Church of Scotland
Publication details: 
Proofs of a book that was published by Thomas Constable and Co., Edinburgh, 1849-1852.
£350.00
SKU: 16366

These proof sheets to the fourth and last volume (1852) of Hanna's 'Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Chalmers', derive from the Chalmers family through Mrs Anne Chalmers Bennet Clark, and are marked in manuscript at the head of the first page 'This Chapter has not [last word underlined] been sent out.' 24pp., 8vo. Three unbound signatures, paginated 439-462. In fair condition, aged and worn. The chapter is numbered in print at the beginning 'CHAPTER XXIII', and the numeration has been altered in manuscript to 'IV', while the pagination of the same page has been altered from the printed '439' to manuscript '462'. Among a number of emendations are the deletion of five letters: first (pp.441-442, 15 lines), part of a letter to his daughter Anne (Mrs Hannah) on 'Domestic Theology'; second (pp.444-445, 38 lines), a full letter to his daughter Grace, from Dunkeld, dated 29 April 1842, on the death of one of Mrs Hannah's children; third (p.447, 18 lines), a full letter to his daughter Anne, from Dunkeld, 5 May 1842, on the same subject; fourth (pp.448-450, 40 lines), to his daughter Eliza (Mrs Mackenzie), a full letter 'before the scheme of a domestic theology had finally to be abandoned'; fifth and sixth (pp.453-454, 55 lines), both to his daughter Grace, from Edinburgh, 20 January 1839, and 16 October 1841, the fifth of a religious nature, the sixth with reference to a letter received from the historian Thomas Carlyle: 'It is quite in character; and I think almost as good as anything he has written'.