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 unappropriated

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.

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My dear Edith It is indeed a great treat to have had a note from you again. I always feel as if my grand setting to rights when you ought to have been resting in peace was one of the drops that assisted in making your bucket overflow Friday seems to me to have been a day that in the rudest health might be felt to be like air to a fish, but how kind the ... continue reading

My dear Mrs Elgie

I send the gathering here for the Altar Cloth. I hear this morning that Mr Harrison has not promised Crookham to anyone about whom the inhabitants have written, so it might be worth while to apply to him now, though I doubt it and I quite see all your reasons for wishing for a change. It is a great misfortune that Otterbourne is not an incumbency as it prevents the ... continue reading