From: Larry Weissmann
Subject: Essays and REviews
To: lzc@dl.ac.uk
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 23:19:04 +0100 (BST)
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Dear Lachlan Cranswick,

Some time back I picked up a copy of "A Brief Examination of Prevalent
Opinions on the Inspiration of the Scriptures of the Old and New
Testaments", London, Longman Green Longman & Roberts, 1861. The author
given only as "A lay member of the Church of England", and with a 60
page introduction by Henry Bristow Wilson. I haven't read it through
yet, only skimmed it, but would certainly seem in the context to be by
Goodwin, although I've never seen mention of it, and the anonymity could
argue either for against that conclusion. I'm wondering if you might be
able to enlighten me on this.

And here's something you might enjoy for your own fund of E&R lore. My
copy of it is 1860 "Second Edition" (second printing?), evidently owned
at the time by one Agnes Drummond. I got it in Ottawa, but no indication
where she was then. Quite scandalized, she wrote lots of marginal notes,
especially tearing strips out of Powell, x'ing out whole pages, and on
139 where the dreaded D-name appears, is this-

A Creator is here denied!!! The first page in your Bible, Baden Powell
simply upsets all your sophistry.

    Wonder what she thought of Huxley!

Regards,
Larry Weissmann