1797 THOMAS DALE. MSs Poem on the Slavery of Sin by William Cowper Biographer & John Ruskin's Professor. Manuscript Samuel [William's son]

Samuel [William's son]

Ejected in 1662

Good men are bettered by afflictions: 'Tis hard for the best to keep their spirits so humble

Brockway [Rev Diodate Brockway

1797 THOMAS DALE. MSs Poem on the Slavery of Sin by William Cowper Biographer & John Ruskin's Professor. Manuscript Samuel [William's son]Charming little holographic verse and appended autograph of Rev. Thomas Dale [1797 1870], the first ever Professor of English, the editor of the Works of William Cowper, and Professor to John Ruskin. Thomas Dale was a minister of the Church of England in the Evangelical school of the Clapham Sect, William Wilberforce, etc., A man of some learning, while he was minister at St. Matthews [Denmark Hill], he was invited to fulfill the role of the first