Henry Hardinge's Letters To His Wife

Just finished a run through Henry Hardinge's letters to his wife, Emily Jane, written between 1844 and 1847, while Hardinge was in India, and edited into a fine edition by Bawa Satinder Singh.

They are, decidedly, the cure for any Henry Hardinge-the-occultist-and-mistress-keeper illness.

The upright, right-thinking, principled, wife-children-and-rural-pile-loving nature of Sir Henry Hardinge comes through in every letter.

Since Singh spells out pretty clearly in his crisp introduction where Hardinge's papers can be found, people committed to drawing this link can go source hunting, but I'm convinced after this read of Hardinge's letters that there is no connection whatever between Henry Hardinge and Emma Hardinge Britten, and that Henry Hardinge is none of the four men whose identities Emma obscured in her own writing.

Next stop: Charles Hardinge's letters, also edited by Singh. Bless the man.