Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, London, to Lady Anne Isabella Byron, [no address], 1 October 1853.

[f. 4r.]

London

30 Russell Square

1st October 1853

Madam

      I have had the honor of putting into the post this morning a copy of the Christian Reformer directed to your Ladyship. I have done so with some reluctance, because it may seem to impose on you the obligation of reading four pages about our honourd friend. Now, tho’ I will not affect to say that I do not think the Obituary article fit for the ordinary readers of a Unitarian Magazine: Yet assuredly a man like Robertson ought not to be written of in so commonplace a style [4v.] And at the same time that writing submitted to your eye –

       I may perhaps render the tone somewhat more excusable by adding that I have had formerly to defend Robertson against those illiberal professors of very liberal opinions who took offense at his remaining a minister of the established Church, entertaining such opinions as he never hesitated to avow on all fit occasions.

            I am

                        Madam

                                      most obediently Yours

                                                   H. C. Robinson

The Lady Noel

Text: MS-DEP Lovelace-Byron 109, fol. 4, Bodleian Library.