MS Princeton University, Parrish Collection C0171: Box 29
Dear Mr Brett,
I am told that to your other labours, you add that of acting for a Society for the promotion of Churches entirely free and unappropriated1
I am very much interested in building such a Church at Eastleigh, better known as the Bishopstoke Junction station, where there is a large and fast encreasing [sic] colony of railway men, 3 miles from the parish Church (South Stoneham) and two miles from any other.
We laid the first stones of a small new Church on the Feast of St Bartholomew, the seats are entirely free and we should be grateful for a grant. If there is a form of application to filled up, perhaps you would be so kind as to send it to me, when I would get it filled up and signed by the Vicar of South Stoneham. The endowment is secured by the Bishop giving up the great tithes of two adjoining farms, which belong to the See, and by £40 which the Vicar proposed to give up but the owner of the land makes up instead, so that there will be £120 per annum. The name is the Church of the Resurrection.
Yours sincerely
C M Yonge