Hawker (Robert Stephen [pseudonym Reuben], Cornish poet and Church of England clergyman, 1803-75) Reference to a Friend, printed form with autograph manuscript insertions, tear in lower margin, folds, slightly creased, 255 x 205mm., Morwenstow, 5th June 1865, tipped-in to a copy of Hawker's Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall, half-title and front free endpaper working loose, some foxing, bookplate of Bernard Spencer Christian Drew on front pastedown, original blind-stamped cloth, 1903 § Church of England.- Certain Sermons or Homilies Appointed to be Read in Churches in the Time of Queen Elizabeth, title within ornamental border, very slight worming affecting upper and lower pastedowns, slightly browned, contemporary patterned calf, rubbed, rebacked in modern calf, 1757, 8vo & folio (2).


⁂ First mentioned a commendation of a fellow vicar, the Rev. James Burdon Clyde, not far from Morwenstow, answering various questions as to his character, such as, "Has he been always, and is he now, sober and temperate?", to which Hawker replies, "He always been a temperate & sober man".