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- GLC#
- GLC00684.12-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- circa June 1864
- Author/Creator
- Tremlett, Francis W., fl. 1850-1864
- Title
- to John McIntosh Kell
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 16 cm, Width: 10 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Mentions a letter from his sister, Louisa Tremlett, and invites Kell and Semmes to visit him for "a regular Southern party of Southern people." He encloses a letter from John Hay, now missing, which describes the response of "the British service, & indeed the British people" to the sinking of the C.S.S. Alabama -- "it was a glorious death & I find is so regarded everywhere." Dated Tuesday morning. Francis W. Tremlett, a British parson, was an ardent Confederate sympathizer. Semmes and Kell stayed with Tremlett in London following the sinking of the Alabama.
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