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Charles H. Spurgeon Eight Page Autograph Letter Signed
Charles H. Spurgeon autograph letter signed spanning eight pages, and published at length in “The Life and Works of Charles Haddon Spurgeon”. Spurgeon’s famed skill with the English language is on full display in this letter, where he describes his visit to Baden-Baden, Germany in June 1860, during the time when French Emperor Napoleon III was visiting the city for The Baden Conference of Sovereigns. Called the “Prince of Preachers” for his oratorical skill, Spurgeon here analyzes the behavior of a coterie of actual Princes, Emperors and statesmen, and the public reaction to them during the Conference. Addressed to the Boston publication, the “Christian Watchman and Reflector”, letter reads in part,
“To the Boston Watchman and Reflector, Letter from Rev. CH Spurgeon / I am now in Baden Baden, refreshed by my rambles, & renewed by my rest., There were no less than nine crowned heads in this little town during Saturday & the Sabbath which has just passed. One could hardly walk in any direction without stumbling upon a grand duke or being run over by the horses of an emperor. Some of the largest hotels being favoured with regal tenancy were so crowded with the attendants, & households of the Kings, that they could not receive ordinary travellers whose patronage they had [?] courted & enjoyed. The Emperor of the French passed through Strasbourg on Friday at about 5 in the afternoon. There were great crowds in the streets, a liberal display of flags & streamers & great multitude of soldiers. The Emperor seemed to be enthusiastically rec’d in this border city of France, although I cannot speak with authority, as to the cheers w[hic]h he received, for our conveyance was ordered into back streets quite out of the line of route & we were at too great a distance to have heard the shouts of the populace. Every one appeared to be happy & full of excitement & when we rode along the streets after the emperor had departed we were struck with the number of country people who had evidently come from their rural homes to see the great sight. The whole city was like a great fair & the tricoloured flags & garlands of oak leaves presented a most attractive appearance as they decorated the quaint old fashioned houses of the older streets, & the elegant mansions of the new. The very guards at the frontier relaxed their severity & the most polite of bows was an admirable substitute for the rigid examination of w[hic]h many travellers complain. On the German side of the river the town of Kehl was resplendent with the orange & red colours of the grand duke of Baden. I suppose the inhabitants have a sufficiently large admixture of the French element to account for their being seized with the imperial fever, as well as their opposite neighbours of Strasbourg. If the people of Kehl received the emperor heartily they were the only Germans who w[oul]d have done so, for everywhere throughout Belgium Prussia & the small German Kingdoms he is either dreaded or execrated. It is the universal belief that he will ever be content until he has completed the ‘natural boundary’ scheme, by subduing all the territory on the west of the Rhine to his imperial sway. If the English are no friends to Napoleon, the Germans go even further, and are more anti-Imperial than ourselves.”
This letter would also be published in several newspapers throughout the world during the summer of 1860, including “The British Standard” where it was titled “The Kings and the Emperor”. Composed in black fountain pen on four sheets of bifolium stationery bound on left side, letter measures 7.5″ x 9″. Folds, and thin piece of tape remnant along edge of last page. Overall very good plus condition with bold handwriting. Sold for $2,516.
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