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Rev. H.P. Wright, principal chaplain to the forces
in the Crimea & Reverend Messieurs Wallace, Sykes, Parson, H.A.
Taylor, Boudier, Parker, Preston, & Crozier. 1855
Photo courtesy of
Library of Congress
Reproduction Number LC-USZC4-9192 |
| "The Doctor teaches
Zeffie Music and Drawing, and I hope to bribe the Archdeacon to
teach Dick Latin with his own boy about the same age."
--14th November, 1861
from The Letters of Mary S. Moody
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| "We expect 3
additional ladies here this Spring, the Bushby's, The Archdeacon's
Family and the Attorney General's, so we are becoming more civilized
you see." --3rd April, 1862
from The Letters of Mary S.
Moody
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| "We heard the
Archdeacon - I have never heard him before, it was very curious that
just before Church I asked the Doctor if he had ever preached here
on "The Good Shepherd" as I had heard he generally chose that
subject. The Doctor said "Oh! No." and his sermon was the one I
expected. Was it not odd? He must have preached 8 or 10 times here
before but I never happened to be at Church as it was chiefly during
the Winter when I was in bed. He is going to bring his family up
here in a week consisting of a delicate wife, a daughter 15, a Son
8, (precocious boy) 2 little girls and a baby boy, an important
addition to our small community. I like him, he is so amusing, but I
am not prepossessed in favour of the rest of the family I am sorry
to say, and they are coming quite into neighbours now, however we
have the Grants between us, and I hope Mrs. Grant will make herself
so agreeable that she will entertain them all sufficiently."
--11th August, 1862
from The Letters of Mary S. Moody
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"I have not written since the 9th when we had grand
rejoicings in honour of the Prince of Wales. It was a very stormy night
however they sent a waggon round for the Company so we got there dry, we
had a nice little party of our own I mean from the Camp, 3 young ladies,
the Archdeacon's family, the Officers and ourselves, so we got on very
nicely. We intended to have left early, but we really enjoyed it very
much, and were much surprised to find it 5 minutes past 4 when we reached
home!
The ball was on the 11th, on the 10th the Officers
dined with us and the Archdeacon and his daughter, so we were quite gay
you see."
--24th November, 1862,
From the Letters of Mary S.
Moody
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| "Last night the
Bishop, the Archdeacon, the Rector and the Attorney general dined
with us. The Archdeacon is such a rude man, I was quite vexed
with him last night." --7th January, 1863
From the Letters
of Mary S. Moody
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| "The weather
continues cold so I have not had the little lady (new born) out yet,
but she grows famously. She has not been Christened yet, we are
waiting for finer weather, the return of Mr. Sheepshanks from
Victoria, and the making of "The Font" a part of the Church which we
have not yet had. I am anxious for Mr. Sheepshanks to Christen her,
as he is now an old friend, and I look upon the Archdeacon as a
"Humbug" while I really like Mr. Sheepshanks, he is so thoroughly
honest and dependable. He and Richard get on much better than they
used to formerly." --26th February, 1863
from The Letters
of Mary S. Moody
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For more info about Archdeacon Wright please see
his page at the memorials of Portsmouth, England.
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