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iS 5 6] CONGRATULATIONS OF FRIENDS 199
would make Vaughan your coadjutor at Westminster ! The
Church of London would then be indeed iota, feres, atque rotunda.
-Ever affectionately yours,
A. P. STANLEY."
Rev. B. Jowett to the Bishop-designate of London.
"... Such a great event is almost above congratulation. I
sake and that of the Church of
rejoice heartily in it for your
England. I think you will succeed, because you have succeeded
at Balliol, at Rugby, and at Carlisle ; because you are tolerant,
and keep your eyes open to what is passing around you ;
because
I believe you will not suffer yourself to be surrounded with
inferior men.
"Twenty years hence the Church of England will probably have
changed considerably for better or for worse, and you will have
had great influence on its changes. The Times of yesterday
addresses you a homily on your new duties. The only advice I
should venture to offer is that you should do as little as possible :
I mean, seriously, that you should keep yourself up to the work
by getting rid in every possible way of matters of routine. Most
sincerely yours,
B. JOWETT.
"
Will you tell Mrs. Tait that Latitudinarian is a tremendous
long name to call a fellow ? JJ
Mr. Ralph Lzngen 1 to the Bishop-designate of London.
"... Our pleasure at your appointment is the pleasure of
a crew who love their ship and admire good seamanship and
who in a trying time find a man in whom they have confidence
called to the helm. The care and the difficulty are the very
reasons why they rejoice that one man was selected rather than
another, both for his sake and their own. Great as are the
labours and the perils, I, for one, look forward with confidence
to your surmounting them in the same spirit that has hitherto
carried success with it, and I anticipate benefits in large measure
both to the Church and country."
Mr. J. D. Coleridge**- to the Bishop-designate of London.
"... London so much wants a vigorous man, and, above all,
a just one, that I entirely rejoice that you are to come there.
1 Now Lord Linger).
2 Now Lord Chief Justice.