Part 1 - Copy letter from James Pearse to Charles Bradlaugh

4 pp; Manuscript

Copy letter from James Pearse to Charles Bradlaugh. The letter reads ‘I am placed in a very paradoxical position – an image maker by profession and an image breaker by inclination’. He adds ‘I have been dangling – to use a scriptural phrase – between Hell and Heaven for the last twenty five years of my life: only that I reverse the meaning of the words: - everything appertaining to ecclesiasticism I regard as the former; and to be free of which, I regard as the latter’.

For biographical information on Charles Bradlaugh see https://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/collections/charles-bradlaugh-archive