My dear Mr Dean

Please tell me if I am wrong in objecting to have the 1st Psalm set down wholly as Maccabean? It is in Mr Rodwell’s comments on the Psalms in his new Newbery Magazine which I have had to notice. There was no previous explanation why any Psalms should be said to be Maccabean (though of course I know it is said of more obvious ones, though I don’t believe it) ... continue reading

Dear Mr Innes I am very sorry to see Miss Cheape’s proof did not reach her. You told me about a month ago that she had sent a fresh address but as I had sent her the proof of Mr Valentine full a month before - (or rather I knew it had been sent) I did not suppose it applied People never forward proofs, they always take them for advertisements.

By the by today’s ... continue reading

My dear Florence I am very glad to hear of you again, and I hope the touch of frost will not be felt at Bournemouth; it has spared all our flowers as yet. I waited to write because Christabel was coming to make up our plans for the new volume. We will try to put in 'Purification' poem for February, but I am afraid poems do not get much payment. I wish ... continue reading

Dear Madam I am afraid I have not knowledge enough to help you with questions, as books of the kind do not come much in my way. From what I have heard, Professor Cheyne’s books would be to be avoided. I believe there is one which reduces Elijah’s miracles to myths, but I only heard it discussed, and there are also his interpretations of the Psalms.

I saw the first number of the [[other:83]Newbery House ... continue reading

My dear Mary I send you the Melanesian paper; would you do as the Bishop asks, and send him your address and two stamps, and so get the paper regularly sent to you? Partridge sends me a terrible number, and now they are not to be gratis to subscribers. We have told them to send in their names to Bishop Selwyn; it is getting rid of a good deal of bother.

Moreover the [[other:52]Monthly ... continue reading