Description

Description: The Dean of Canterbury Frederic Farrar writes in response to a note about the death of a common friend, Phillips Brooks (1835-1893), who was one of the most popular American Episcopalian preachers of the Gilded Age: “the loss of our common friend Phillips Brooks is as deeply felt by some of us in England as by any in America.” Signed, Yours very faithfully / F. W. Farrar”

Written and signed  on 7 ¼” x 4 ¾  ivory paper with an oval House of Commons embossed seal, bearing a crown and the motto “Honi soit qui mal y pense (shamed be the person who thinks of evil).” Item #A02091

Frederic William Farrar (1831-1903) was the Archdeacon of Westminster (1883-94) and Dean of Canterbury (1894-1903), a classics scholar, a philologist and a prolific writer. He was one of the pallbearers for Charles Darwin.

Condition: Mailing foldline, writing is legible and in very good condition.