# The MS. in a Red Box

Author: Hamilton, John A. (John Arthur), 1845-

Genre: Category: Historical Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35778

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+MS.+in+a+Red+Box+Hamilton&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

On the tenth of May in the year sixteen hundred and twenty-seven, I rode from Temple Belwood to Crowle, as blithe and merry as any young fellow in the world. For one thing, the day was the finest of an early season, the air sweet with spring odours and glad with pleasant sounds. The laburnums and lilacs and hawthorn and the foreign chestnuts (in blossom for the first time at Temple Belwood that year) were full of bloom. The hen-pheasants were whistling to their new-hatched broods; the fresh-shorn sheep were answering the bleating of their lambs; trees and bushes rang with the melody of small birds, and from the holms and islets of marsh and mere came a din of quacking, clanging, and chatt...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XXIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ms-in-a-red-box-35778/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ms-in-a-red-box-35778/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ms-in-a-red-box-35778/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ms-in-a-red-box-35778/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ms-in-a-red-box-35778/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ms-in-a-red-box-35778/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ms-in-a-red-box-35778/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ms-in-a-red-box-35778/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ms-in-a-red-box-35778/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ms-in-a-red-box-35778/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ms-in-a-red-box-35778/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ms-in-a-red-box-35778/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ms-in-a-red-box-35778/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ms-in-a-red-box-35778/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ms-in-a-red-box-35778/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ms-in-a-red-box-35778/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ms-in-a-red-box-35778/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ms-in-a-red-box-35778/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ms-in-a-red-box-35778/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ms-in-a-red-box-35778/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ms-in-a-red-box-35778/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ms-in-a-red-box-35778/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ms-in-a-red-box-35778/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ms-in-a-red-box-35778/chapters/16/index.md)