228 GEOEGE JOHN EOMANES i88i- 



Christ Church, Oxford : January 14, 1889. 



My dear Eomanes, — I hope you will not think 

 me impertinent if I write a few words of gratitude 

 for the happiness which I enjoyed in reading to-day 

 even such an account of your address at Toynhee Hall 

 as the ' Times ' gave me. There is always a risk of 

 impertinence in thanking a man for what he has said; 

 for of course he has said it because he saw it, and 

 thought he ought to say it, quite simply. But I may 

 just thank you for the generous willingness with which 

 you accepted such a task : — and for the light in which 

 you looked at it : — as an opportunity for saying so 

 ungrudgingly, so open-heartedly, that which is clear 

 to you about our Lord. This must be, please G-od, a 

 real bit of help to others ; and I trust and pray that 

 it may return in help to you. 



But how dark you were about it ! I should have 

 been furious if I had been in London, and not there. 



Please forgive me this letter ; and do not think it 

 needs any answer. 



Affectionately yours, 



Fbancis Paget. 



At the beginning of this year Mr. ' Eomanes col- 

 lected his various poems and had them privately 

 printed. He writes to his sister : 



February 1889. 



Three weeks before the llth I was wondering 

 what I should get as a wedding-day present to mark 

 the tenth anniversary. Ethel then chanced to say that 

 she wished my poems were pubhshed, so that she 

 could have them in type. This suggested to me the 



