SIR ROBERT INGLIS. Third Person Autograph Letter Signed. London, Feb. 25, 1850. 1 page. To Mr. Hansard, official Printer of Parliamentary Debates:

"Sir Robert Inglis presents his compliments to Mr. Hansard; and in consequence of the answer which he received on his part on the 21 Febry. has the pleasure to send herewith a sketch of the two questions. They were both noticed in the Post and Chronicle he thinks but the subjects were omitted in the Times." (Pencil erasure; crease and fold; soil on verso; Good overall)

Inglis was an "Ultra-Tory" Conservative, openly anti-Semitic (accordingly despised by Disraeli), anti-Catholic, even anti-Buddhist - meanwhile, ironically, representing the district in which Oxford University was located. The speech to which this letter refers may have been Inglis' statement in opposition to British public education, arguing that there was no point in expanding the literacy

of the people since the Germans, who were far more literate, had just staged a Socialist revolution.