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Excerpt from The Letters of a Series of Letters on Public Affairs Written by the Rev. Lord Sidney Godolphin Osborne and Published in the Times, 1844-1888
It may be that Osborne felt the region of his in¿uence was too restricted he may have fretted under the knowledge of possess ing powers that found no scope in the cure of ploughboys' souls. However this may have been, throughout his life he ¿amed with indignation at wrong, at Oppression, at insincerity, and his heart glowed with sympathy for the desolate and oppressed wherever they were to be found. His books were many, but they are forgotten. I His letters alone deserve a more permanent place in literature. He wrote Gleanings in the West of Ireland Lady Eva: Her Last Days,' a tale, in 1851 Scutari and its Hospitals,' in 1855 Hints to the Charitable,' and Hints for the Amelioration of the Moral Condition of a Village,' in 1856 Letters on the Education of Young Children in 1866 and many pamphlets urging on the public the improvement of the dwellings of the labouring classes. None of these books are remembered. They lacked the suggestiveness, the humour, the originality, the stimulation and the wit of his letters. Of these latter the materials are ample. They are to be numbered in hundreds, and the collection now printed includes the best of them.
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