OO A LOST PAPER ON HUGH PETER. 
liave been to me a source of iimch pleasure to find myself able to sat- 
isfy the laudable desire of the Essex Institute to secure the publication 
of so interesting a bit of History. 
I am, Sir, 
Your faithful servant, 
EOWTON. 
To H. M. Brooks, Esq. 
36 Jamks Street, Buckingham Gate. 
London, S. W., 11 SejH., 1889. 
Dear Sir: 
Your letter of 28 Aug. to my brother the Rev. C. W. Boase of Ex- 
eter College, Oxford, has been handed to me as one of the authors of 
the Bibliotheca Cornubiensis. I perfectly remember the circumstances 
connected with the Hugh Peters episode to which you refer. In 1874 
having become aware that Isaac Disraeli had written a vindication of 
Hugh Peters, althougli that vindication did not appear in his collected 
works, I wrote Benjamin Disraeli enquiring what had become of it. 
In course of time I had a reply from Mr. Disraeli's secretary, stating 
that it was quite true that his father bad written such an article, which 
article was to have been given in the collected edition of his writings. 
By some unaccountable oversight it was however omitted, and now, 
1874, although Mr. Disraeli had caused a search to be made for the 
MS. it could not be found, and he could not say what had become of 
it, but if it ever turned up he would let me know. I did not feel jus- 
titied in pressing him further on the matter and I never heard anything 
more about it. I understand that all Lord Beaconsfleld's papers were 
left unreservedly to Lord Rowton and if that gentleman has not come 
across the vindication in his researches I am much afraid that we must 
consider it to have been destroyed or at some time abstracted from its 
owner's possession. I agree with you entirely that it would be a 
most interesting document to print, and can but regret that it is not 
in my power to help you further in the matter. 
I am 
Yours very truly, 
George C. Boask. 
Robert S. Rantoul, Esq. 
Salem. 
