In the Notes and Queries periodical, year 1898, 9th series, vol.1, p.201, 309 and 510 appeared an interesting exchange between R.N. Captain James Buchan Telfer and the British Vice-Consul at Leghorn Montgomery Carmichael. I thought it would be interesting to offer a copy of the originals in this blog, if the text is too small for you just click on each image to read it in full resolution:
[...] and to Smollett’s tomb. Later on, the apparent mystery of its wrong inscription led to a written confrontation between Consul Montgomery Carmichael and Col. Buchan Telfer on the pages of The Times. More recently, after WWII, some concerned readers wrote to the Editor [...]
[...] think, not altogether sufficient reasons, to show that Smollett is not buried in the Old Cemetery. For his arguments and my reply thereto see «Notes and Queries». Ninth Series, Vol. 1, pp. 201, 309…. It certainly is sufficiently staggering that the date «16th September 1773» given on the tomb is [...]