MS location unknown. Printed in Romanes, Appreciation, 189-90
[To George David Boyle1]
It was a wonderful surprise, for the secret had been very well kept, and the day before I had a present from my former and present scholars which gave me great delight. £200 came with the autographs . . .
I do feel that Mr. Keble’s blessing, ‘Prosper Thou the work of her hands upon her,’ has been most marvellously fulfilled, and this has brought me to think that the peculiar care and training that were given me by my father, Mr. Keble and M. A. D. seem to have been appointed to make me a sort of instrument for popularizing Church views that might not have been otherwise taken in; and so I am thankful to believe that is my place as a polished corner.2