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Alluding to a request for aid which he had heard of having been made 

 a year ago to the Rector of our Hingham, the Minister says : ' I should 

 prefer not to receive money from there, even if he were able and in- 

 clined to send it. I will say, however, that a book, or window, or some 

 article of church furniture (if possible something that had been used 

 there) would be a pleasant memorial of our Mother Church. ... I do 

 not think we ought to receive aid from Hingham, but some token of 

 Christian brotherhood and Church relations would be of inestimable value.' 

 The wish thus expressed will surely find a response. A committee has 

 been formed of three ladies, to consider in what way the Church people 

 of Hingham, Norfolk, can best manifest their sympathy with the Church 

 builders and worshippers of Hingham, Massachusetts." 



Hingham Rectory, 

 Attleborough, March 21, 1883. 

 Dear Sir, — I have lately received and read with much interest and 

 pleasure a letter of yours to Mrs. Dyer, in which you give her an ac- 

 count of Church work at Hingham, Mass. I read your letter to-day to 

 a working party of ladies who are employed much in the same way as 

 the Guild that you write of. They will be much pleased to carry out 

 your suggestion and to make some present to your Church which may 

 be a token to you and your people of the interest felt for them by the 

 parishioners of Old Hingham. . . . There is a fine old chair which has 

 stood in our Church a long time, which, if you have room for it, I 

 think we might send you to represent your Bishop's "cathedra." 



Yours faithfully, 



Matxard W. Currie. 

 To Rev. Charles L. Wells. 



Hingham Rectory, 

 Attleborough, April 12, 1883. 

 My dear Sir, — ... I think our means would suffice to procure a 

 chalice and paten suitable for your little church, — if that is what your 

 congregation would like. The chair which I offered is large and rather 

 unwieldy, but if you think it worth being carried across the Atlantic, I 

 am sure the church-wardens would be willing to send it. There is a 

 lectern of proportions suitable, I should think, to your church and made 

 of old oak, which would be much at your service. Let me assure you 

 of my appreciation of the sentiments expressed in your letter to Mrs. 

 Dyer, and of the sympathy of the Church people of Old Hingham with 

 you and your people of the new. 



I am, my dear sir, 



Yours faithfully, 



Maynard W. Currie. 

 To Rev. Charles L. Wells. 



Hingham, Attleboro', July 27, 1883. 

 My dear Sir, — ... The committee of ladies of which I told you 

 have made a collection among their friends here, to which I hope to be 



