My dear Miss Cleveland, I am greatly obliged by your kind notes, and the books which give a very sad and interesting picture. I have read about half through the first volume, and have been greatly interested by many of the lives.

Thanks too for the permission to use those sketches of the good works done among the negroes for Mission Life, it is a very good magazine, edited by the Reverend J.W. Halcombe, and published by ... continue reading

Dear Madam I am much obliged by your kindness in sending Mr Nobb’s letter - It is however the Melanesian mission, not the Pitcairners, for which I am collector and it is better not to mix the two arrangements. Bishop Patteson’s sisters sent out what is really worth sending to him, but in general money is more useful than goods, and people have been sending such useless things lately that I wished to check them.

I believe ... continue reading

My dear Marianne To write to you seems matter of necessity, though time does not seem to be found anywhere in the interval of church-going and eating. The Consecration day you heard about, and on the next, after a tolerably quiet day, when we went to luncheon with Mrs. Scroffs, the dear people came. They had fraternised with Mr. Wilson by the way, and he came in the fly with the ladies, while the vigorous Primate ... continue reading

Sir,

I admire the brave spirit of the writer of this letter, and I am sure she would be the last person to intend it to be used as a means of casting imputations upon her Church.

So far as the Church is an Establishment she has nothing to do with Missionary effort

The Church of each colony is voluntary and is assisted by grants from the two great Societies, both wholly voluntary. There are immense numbers ... continue reading

My dear Mr Moor

Thank you very much. There is one thing more that I want, when you come to the Confirmation, & that is the last SPG report. Subscribing through my friend here, I don’t get it direct I have made a beginning but I go from home for nearly a week after the Confirmation I do not know what to do about the Chandlers Ford children. There really are not many - & when ... continue reading

My dear Madam,

I must thank you for your two pretty notices, and tell you that they are come all quite right with the rest. I don’t know whether you will approve of one alteration I ventured to make of the name Chironia into Erythræa, for I found Sir James Smith, & the other modern botany books have changed the name, and say there is a decided distinction between the Chironia and Erythræa. I wish they ... continue reading

My dear Madam, I enclose the Lesser Holidays, in which I have made one alteration namely the omission of the Augustinian order as having been founded by St Augustine. He seems to have framed a rule of some kind, but it was not till the 9th century (according to Mrs Jameson) that the monastic persons not belonging to the rule of St Benedict were classed under this name, and his rule merely seems to have been ... continue reading