xliv CHARLES CARDALE BABINGTON. 



From the Rev. the Master of Clare College, Camhidge. 



Oct. 2, 1895. 



.... I beg you to accept my sincere thanks for your kindness, 

 in sending me a copy of Professor Mayor's Memoir of Professor 

 Babington. I have read it with great interest and admiration of the 

 character and many-sided acquirements of our late Professor. He 

 was indeed a great power for good in Cambridge throughout an 

 unusually long term of years, and retained to the last a power for 

 influencing younger men which is rare in persons of advanced years. 

 I learn a great deal from the Memoir which I did not know of his 

 earlier years in the University, and he is quite one of those of whom 

 the more we know, the more we regret their loss. . . . 



From the Rev. the Master of St. Catharine's College, 

 Cambridge. 



July 23, 1895. 



. . . Your dear husband has gone down to the grave " as a shock 

 of corn Cometh in his season," beloved, honoured, and esteemed above 

 all who have left us in Cambridge in recent years. If one point in 

 his character struck me more than another it was his spirit of bene- 

 volence and Christian charity — the charity that thinketh no evil ; 

 that hopeth all things — that would embrace all men. It must 

 be some help to you to know how universally he was beloved, and 

 now how deeply he is regretted by all. I suppose my knowledge 

 of him goes back further than most residents', for I used to meet 

 him at our college table as Archdeacon Hard wick's guest in and 

 after 1853. And in all those years there was no other opinion that 

 I heard except that of respect and affection. 



How much he enjoyed life to the end : those visits with you 

 to the Yorkshire dales, will be treasured recollections of unmixed 

 enjoyment and bright mental activity. . . . And now you will feel 

 that with enlarged faculties of mind and heart — of intelligence and 

 of love — he is happy for ever with his Saviour, only waiting for the 

 meeting which knows no parting. I shall never forget the happy 

 visits I have paid to him, and regard them as some of my happiest 

 memories. . . . 



(To Prof. Mayor.) Nov. 15, 1895. ... I have just read for the 

 second time your genial and delightful account of our dear old 

 friend, Charles Cardale Babington, and I should like to thank you 

 heartily for the pleasure, and more, I hope, and for the justice^ 

 which it has done to the memory of one whom most of us will 

 never forget. Of course it goes Avithout saying that your tract 

 surprises a reader with its wide and varied information, to which 

 Babington's wide range of interest is in a sense a parallel. But to 

 us its great value is, that it shews the world how wide was the reach 

 of Babington's knowledge, and how far juster and broader were 



