[Francis William Newman, classical scholar and moral philosopher.] Autograph Letter Signed to the sub-editor of ‘Fraser’s Magazine’ William Allingham, asking whether he will take an article on ‘ Mussulman riots against the Parsees’ and other matters.

See the entries on Newman and Allingham in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 16mo. A neatly and closely written letter of twenty-three lines. Addressed ‘To W Allingham Esq’ and signed ‘Francis W Newman’. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn, with unobtrusive circular mark from mount at top left-hand corner of first page. Folded for postage. At the time of writing Allingham was sub-editor of Fraser’s Magazine under the historian James Anthony Froude (1818-1894), whose wife Henrietta had just died. Allingham would take over the editorship in the following month of June, holding it until 1879. The letter begins: ‘I am here for two days longer, and my time very full; else I should like to call on you. I grieve over my friend Mr Froude’s calamity’. He continues: ‘A Parsee has pressed on me to write an article in Fraser on the Mussulman riots against the Parsees. What he details is terrible. He gives me ample documents. I feel the need of delicacy, as I do not hear the opposite side. Are you likely to have an article on the subject? or to have room for one?’ [he adds ‘from another hand!’] He is ‘embarrassed by an article on Christian Charity, the proof of which I corrected in March. Do you still keep it in type?’ He gives the address of his ‘own house’, to which letters should be sent after he leaves the present address on the Thursday morning. See Image