Mazzini (Giuseppe) Autograph letter signed ("Joseph Mazzini")

The letter, to an unidentified recipient, reads "My dear Sir, I beg to apologise for my silence. Mrs H. had assured me that she would write herself what I had told her. There is very little to be said about what I asked you for. A man ought to... and as you have not the man, I may try some other scheme. As for Miss W. what I would have wished her friends to ask was "to have her tried or released"; putting aside any ground of political sympathy and merely claiming the right for an English subject to not be imprisoned by a foreign power and kept in confinement for an indefinite time: else, what does a passport, entitling or protection mean? I did not go into the particulars of her case, because I did not think it necessary to dwell upon them in any appeal as that suggested by me. Since then, Mr McAdam from Glasgow addressed... unfounded. Only, I believe that before the end of next month the trial will come on. Except a circumstance connected with the Gonza attempt - concerning Naples - nothing will come out against her; nothing culpable against the Sardinian Kingdom. Miss W. wishes to be tried; she is tolerably well and in excellent spirits; what I suggested was not for her sake, but for England's sake. It is a bad precedent that the English people should be it appears so much indifferent to the manner in which English subjects are treated abroad. The general silence about Miss W. has been noticed with true astonishment in Italy", three pages, mounted (second leaf attached to a larger page), a central portion has been cut out from the first leaf, 8vo, n.p. [London], n..d.

Dimensions:5.9 x 4.6"/ 15 x 11.7cm