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will not think me too presuming if I make bold to 
do so, and if I ask you where your parish is, for I 
would gladly form some idea of where your home is to 
be. Pleasant and desirable on many accounts as an 
Oxford life must be, yet I cannot but think you more 
appropriately placed in the pleasant parsonage I can 
fancy, the centre of a little world of your own, and 
the spiritual guide of an attached body of parishion- 
ers, where you will be very happy and very useful. 
Still let us hope that the visit to Cambridge, New 
England, *S only deferred, to afford us a double grati- 
fication. I think you can sometimes leave your parish 
for thrée months, or even more with special leave, and 
the voyage is becoming shorter and cheaper every 
ear. 
I have looked through the “Times,” which I see 
regularly through the kindness of a friend, thinking 
that I might perchance see your appointment, presen- 
tation, or whatever it may be, mentioned; but in 
vain. 
By the way, I am glad to see that you have elected 
Mr. Gladstone. Your name on the Oxford Commit- 
tee makes me suppose you have not yet left Oxford. 
Dr. Albro has returned in restored health, and 
speaks with much gratification of his visit to Oxford, 
only regretting that your absence prevented his mak- 
ing your acquaintance until the last moment of his 
short stay. 
Mr. Clough brought me a letter from Maskelyne of 
W College. Circumstances, I am sorry to say, 
have yet prevented me from seeing him here as much 
as I could wish. I hope soon to know him better. 
He has excellent and influential acquaintances ; but 
one hardly sees what he is to do. 
