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allowed to make an addition, and I may say that we thus have a sum of 

 £20 (twenty pounds) to be devoted to the procuriug of something for 

 your church which would be acceptable to you and your congregation as 

 a token of the sympathy and brotherly regard felt by the Church people 

 of the Old Hingham for the Church people of the new. It occurs to me 

 that a silver chalice and paten would be an appropriate gift to your 

 church, and a durable memorial of the regard which we wish to express. 

 ... I have not forgotten the wish you expressed to have some furniture 

 that had been in use in the old church. ... I will write you again about 

 the chair, and if it is not too big for you and you wish to have it, I feel 

 sure our church-wardens will offer no objection to my sending it. . . . 



Yours very faithfully, 



Maynard W. Currie. 

 To Rev. Charles L. Wells. 



Hingham, Massachusetts, 

 August 11th, 1883. 



Rev. and dear Sir, — Your favor of the 27th ult. is at hand, and I 

 thank you heartily for the kind and cordial feeling which it expresses. 

 We are delighted with the exceedingly generous expressions which it 

 promises us of the brotherly regard of the Church-people of Old Hingham 

 for us of the New. Above all, we thank you for your interest in bring- 

 ing about a happy result ; it will be a joy and an inspiration to us for 

 many years to come. Nor can we conceive of a more desirable, more 

 acceptable, or more appropriate form in which to express the Christian 

 love and Church brotherhood than that which you suggest. 



The Chalice and the Paten used in celebrating the memorial of the 

 redeeming Passion of our common Lord will thus serve not only to bring 

 before us our communion with Him and with each other, but also to re- 

 mind us, continually, in a beautiful and significant manner of our com- 

 munion with our Mother Church across the sea, " to which," as the pre- 

 face to our own Prayer Book so truly and so beautifully says, " the Church 

 in these States is indebted under God for her first foundation and long con- 

 tinuance of nursing care and protection." May the union be strong and 

 lasting, ministering to the glory of God and to the prosperity of His 

 Church. . . . Believe me, with the greatest respect and esteem, 



Very faithfully yours, 



Charles L. Wells. 



To Rev. Maynard W. Currie. 



The silver chalice and paten were ordered from Messrs. Keith 

 & Son, Denmark Street, Soho, with the following inscription : 

 " Presented by the Church-people of Hingham, England, to the 

 Church of St. John the Evangelist, Hingham, Massachusetts, 

 U. S. A.," engraved on the under side. On the paten is added 

 the text, " We being many are One Bread and One Body." 



