A Letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Derby, by Benjamin Parsons 62197 [Subtitle: on the cruelty and injustice of opening the Crystal Palace on the Sabbath] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/6/2/1/9/62197 ] [Files: 62197-0.txt; 62197-h.htm] For those wishing to know: in 1852 the Earl of Derby was the Prime Minister of England and the Crystal Palace had opened to great crowds in south London. In proposing to open the Crystal Palace on Sunday afternoons for the poorer folk who were unable to see it, the Earl was attacked by the religious folk, and this pamphlet is a typical example. Rev. Parsons insists he only cares about the welfare of people, and says Sunday opening is terrible. However, at the end he says that middle-class people won't go to churches in the morning, but would take a day of pleasure and rest instead. Perhaps that was really the reason as he didn't seem to care much about the welfare of folk in the rest of his life. All the best, David, Very windy England