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1860-64] CORRKSrONDKNCK WITH STANLEY 285
" MY
The Bishop of London to Canon A. P. Stanley.
"LONDON HOUSE, February 18, 1861.
DEAR STANLEY, In paragraph 3 of the Archbishop s
letter, as given in the Times, there is a typographical error which
materially
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alters its tone. The word their is substituted for
these. This shall be publicly corrected.
"
If you read the letter with this alteration, you will see that
the paper in question contains simply what I stated to you in
the garden at Fulham as likely to appear. No allusion is made
in the paper to any individual writer, and it is open for each to
show that he is not responsible for what others have written, or
for the general system which the public has put together from
comparing the seven essays.
"
Trust me that I have done in this matter what is best, and
what was absolutely necessary.
"As to Temple s essay, I mentioned to you, that, in my judg
ment, there is nothing in it, taken by itself, to which such a
condemnation as that of the Archbishop s letter can apply.
The same must be said of Pattison s. Jowett s has a deeply
earnest tone about it. Those who are acquainted with his other
writings will find far less to object to in this essay than in the
Dissertations or Commentary.
" The book of the Essays and Reviews as a whole is what has
excited so much feeling. Cannot the copartnery be dissolved ?
Surely it is wrong to allow new editions of it as a whole to be
appearing. The variety of names in that list of the whole Bench
appended to the Archbishop s letter ought to convince you of
the gravity of the occasion, of which no one but ourselves (the
Bishops) can judge. I am confident that the course pursued
has been the right one, and the kindest to the writers. I urged
on both Jowett and Temple the duty of their each publishing
something of a positive character, which would show that they
are not to be confounded, say, with Baden Powell. I wish you
could bring this about. Temple at least would have no difficulty
in doing so. Yours ever,
"
A. C. LONDON."