xt7qjq0stw34_3259 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/mets.xml https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474.dao.xml unknown archival material 1997ms474 English University of Kentucky The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.  Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. W. Hugh Peal manuscript collection Thomas Mayne Reid letter to J. Jaffray text 43.94 Cubic Feet 86 boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 22 items Poor-Good Peal accession no. 11453. Thomas Mayne Reid letter to J. Jaffray 2017 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474/Box_32/Folder_22/Multipage11287.pdf 1878 August 23 1878 1878 August 23 
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Peal accession no. 11055a.

section false xt7qjq0stw34_3259 xt7qjq0stw34 Frogmore House Ross Herefordshire August 23’78 My dear Sir By "your worth" I am aware of the interest you take in political matters, and that like myself, you are all on the side of Liberalism. Has the parallellism between the present time and that of the first Charles occurred to you? It strikes me most forcibly, a likeness almost identical. The encroachments of the throne in the person of the Queen herself. Stafford represented, or rather caricatured, by the loathsmme Jew Disraeli, the corruption of court and society by the Prince of Wales, with the aggressiveness of the Roman catholic religion, all had their parallell in the days preceding that short but gla- rious epoch of the Protectorate, which gave to the English peo— ple the only glimpse of real liberty ever vouchsafed to them. Now, Sir, I wish to write a novel of the Parliamentary war times laying the scene in these western shires, so rich in the lore re- lating to them; and if I can be secure, a "Syndicate" will do w . With the "Birmingham Post" forming the chief and head of that syndicate, it would then be possible, and worth my while to la. bour hard upon the task. And, I fancy, I could make a splendid story of it; not alone interesting as a romance, but calcula- ted to serve another and better purpose, by striking a blow in defense of liberty, and our civil rights so surely threatened and gravely in peril of extinction. I should point out the par— allell I have spoken of, and assail the Toryism of teaday through that of the days of Carolus Rex, with their scurvy rab- ble of so-called "Cavaliers". I ask then whether you would be disposed to my doing this in the columns of the "Post" and if you say "yes", I shall be happy to communicate all particulars as to the scope and character of the tale. Yours ever faithfully J. Jaffray Esq I Mayne Reid B—237 (Collection of Captain F. L. Pleadwell)