The letters of Richard Ford, 1797-1858

SUCCESS OF THE _HANDBOOK_--_GATHERINGS FROM SPAIN_--ILLNESS AND DEATH OF HIS WIFE--MARRIAGE WITH MISS MARY MOLESWORTH--TELBIN’S “DIORAMA OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON’S CAMPAIGNS”--...

LITERARY WORK--ENGAGEMENT AND SECOND MARRIAGE--ARTICLES IN THE _QUARTERLY REVIEW_--PREPARATIONS FOR A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT--PROMISE TO WRITE THE _HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN SPA...

In December the Fords returned from the Alhambra to a house which they had taken in the Calle de los Monsalvos at Seville. There they spent the winter of 1831-2. A letter dated...

On September 15th, 1830, Richard Ford wrote from London to his friend Henry Unwin Addington, the British Plenipotentiary at Madrid, announcing his intention to winter in Spain....

When Ford wrote to Addington in April 1831, he was hesitating between a furnished house at Granada or rooms in the ruined palace of the Alhambra. Poetry conquered prose; comfort...

On his way to England, at the end of September 1833, Ford passed through Madrid. There he saw the funeral of Ferdinand VII., of which he gives an account in the following letter...

You will find a large engraving of the tomb of the Catholic kings in the folio work published at Madrid in 1804 by Don Pablo Lorano, and called _Antiquedades arabes in España_.

SUCCESS OF THE _HANDBOOK_--_GATHERINGS FROM SPAIN_--ILLNESS AND DEATH OF HIS WIFE--MARRIAGE WITH MISS MARY MOLESWORTH--TELBIN’S “DIORAMA OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON’S CAMPAIGNS”--...

LITERARY WORK--ENGAGEMENT AND SECOND MARRIAGE--ARTICLES IN THE _QUARTERLY REVIEW_--PREPARATIONS FOR A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT--PROMISE TO WRITE THE _HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN SPA...