MS location unknown. Printed in Romanes, Appreciation.
Dean Church’s beautiful book came in time for me to work it in with the Cardinal. It is a sort of key.1 By the way, there is a mistake- I don’t know whether J. H. N.’s or Miss Mozley’s – about the consecration of a church to which he could not go in 1838: it is said to be Hursley but it really was Otterbourne. Hursley was not consecrated, of course, till years after. I read Hurrell Froude immediately after . . then I read Dean Church, who is most delightful every way, and how he does scathe the Hebdomadal Board!2 How like it was to the seed bursting and bringing forth much fruit! What beautiful sketches there are of Mr. Keble and Charles!3 It seems to me the real portrait of Mr. Keble.
Those letters between ’Jemima’ and J. H. N. are most – I should say interesting, but that the word has been spoilt. It is altogether a wonderful book. I still think that patience was wanting, but partly from the not having grown up in the love of the Mother Church.