The Open University | Study at the OU | About the OU | Research at the OU | Search the OU Listen to this page | Accessibility
W. E. Gladstone to John Murray (from January 1843), on Lieutenant Eyre, Military Operations in Cabool [sic for Kabul]: 'I have read it with great pain and shame, which are, as I fear one must say in such a case, the test of its merits as a work. May another occasion for such a narrative never arise!'