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of Manchester; I had not heard of the death of the 
former incumbent when the news of this offer came. 
What a run Gladstone is having in the way of church 
patronage! Then the memorial from both universi- 
ties themselves for the abolition of religious tests! 
How you are getting on! And how are you to manage 
to secure proper religious influence at the universities ? 
By moral power and the strength of your cause alone? 
which may, after all, be more truly effective than 
statutes. Yet there will be natural anxieties. 
Pray give me, now and then, an inside view of what 
is going on, or better, what is thought. 
Why, here is my sheet filled and nothing said. 
I have nothing to tell you from here — nothing worth 
sending you. I don’t think much of Lowell’s “ Cath- 
edral.” The grotesque bits are not in half as good 
keeping as the gargoyles and other queer pieces of 
ornament on the old cathedrals. 
CamBrince, April 4, 1870. 
I have for a long while been wishing and endeav- 
oring to write to you, but it is not so easy, so many 
other letters have to be written, to answer letters from 
persons that I don’t particularly care for, as to leave 
little time for those that I do. 
I owe you for two very interesting letters; for it 
was a hurried note of mine that we need not count, 
which crossed yours of February 4, and then there is 
your later one of March 1, along with Mrs. Church’s 
to my wife. I leave it for her to tell you about the 
novelists. And I have not much to say of myself. I 
have pottered all winter over the herbarium and upon 
an article for our “ American Academy’s Proceed- 
ings,” of a wholly technical nature, which is just in 
