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and not to another, and settle in the several essays how much is
insinuation or repeated guess, and how much the author s own
opinion, and afterwards to pronounce as to each opinion how
much in it is true, and how much false, and then go through the
teaching of each, would be a very difficult and very long business.
You seem to expect individual Bishops to do this.
"
As far as I am capable of doing anything of the kind amidst
my many avocations, I have done something towards it in my
published volume. Meanwhile I do not think you need alarm
or irritate yourself about Convocation. About the courts of law,
I must be silent, being a Privy Councillor.
" To turn the tables on yourself, I think I might say a good
deal as to the mode in which a great opportunity was thrown
away by the writer of the article in the Edinburgh. Will you for
give me if I strongly advise you in all such difficult matters to
take counsel with friends who can view the case impartially ?
"
But we must not quarrel about this matter. I have been told
you are going to Mount Athos. Is this so ? I trust you will come
back safe and sound. Very many thanks for the kind expressions
at the end of your letter. . . . Ever yours, A. C. LONDON/
Canon A. P. Stanley to the Bishop of London.
"6 GROSVENOR CRESCENT, July io///, 61.
" MY DEAR BISHOP, Many thanks for your kind letter,
which I have found here on my return. I shall hope to be off
by the beginning of August.
"
I will not re-open the controversy which I shall hope to find
closed on my return. I will only say that, had the Episcopal
letter contained anything like what you express in your present
letter (which is exactly what I have expressed in my article in
the Edinburgh Review), neither I nor the intelligent public would
have had any just cause of complaint. Believe me to be, ever
yours,
A. P. STANLEY."
A note from Stanley to the Bishop, on the last day of
the year (1861), enclosed the following
"
Memorandum :-
In the earlier part of this year I left a memorandum to be
read in case anything befell me. Now that the end of the year is