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1860-64] CORRESPONDENCE WITH DR. TEMPLE 299
to me. Indeed, when you were at Fulham, you told me dis
tinctly that you meant to publish, as I believe and say you ought
"
Personally, also, I must say that you quite misrepresent what
passed between us at Fulham. I said then what I say now and
said always respecting your essay, and it is my full belief that I
said the same in distinct words to yourself.
"
I am happy to think that others who have a deep regard for
you and Jowett take a very different view from that which you
have taken, you must allow me to say, from a somewhat
arrogant over-estimate of the infallibility of your own opinion.-
Believe me to be, my dear Temple, yours very sincerely,
"A. C. LONDON.
" MY
The Rev. Dr. Temple to the Bishop of London.
LORD, I
"
RUGBY, $d March 1861.
should not have answered your letter if it did
not seem to be necessary to mention two matters of fact.
"
I was quite aware that in speaking to the masters I ran a con
siderable risk of being misrepresented by half-statements of what
I said. But I thought their relation to me made openness their
due in spite of the risk. Such a half statement, however, as I
feared, seems to have reached you. For I do not think that
whoever told you of what I said can have told you that my last
words to the masters were :
statement of my disapproval
* You will see that if any public
of the other writers in the volume is
made, I shall probably find it my duty to contradict it. I think
you could neither have been told this, nor what, you
from its tenor, preceded it.
can see
"I wish I could feel that I had misrepresented what passed
between us at Fulham. But I have a very distinct recollection
of what was said. You expressed disapproval of what I had
clone in joining the other writers in the volume. You quoted
Dean Milman s remark about solidarity. You advised me to
publish. But not one word did you say in my hearing of dis
approval of my essay. Even your disapproval of the whole book
was not in such a tone as would have conveyed to any ordinary
listener that you were prepared to do what you have since done.
when we
Jowett came immediately after I left. Naturally enough,
met, I asked him what sort of conversation you had had with him.