Pièce 174 - Letter from Julius Charles Hare

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There are several things about a proposed plan JCH has, to build a chapel on the Sussex coast, which he does not like: 'I hardly know whether my objections are well grounded. I desiderate dripstones, a higher pitch in the roof, and do not like the belfry'. The funds are small and the vicar says he has no means of increasing them. If WW could send a few remarks JCH will forward them to the vicar. JCH does not know much about the new Bishop, Shuttleworth [Philip Shuttleworth, Bishop of Chichester]: 'neither that nor his books lead me to rejoice at his appointment. Personally I would infinitely rather have had Arnold [Matthew Arnold] or Thirlwall [Connop Thirlwall], with whom it would have been a delight to work in concert. I do not anticipate much good from our new Bishop; but I do hope he will not check or thwart the good that is working, through the spirit which our late Bishop awakened. And I rejoice that I hold my archdeaconry as a legacy from him, and so am doubly bound to follow out his plans'. JCH has been informed that Trinity have a poor group to select eight new fellows from: 'I hope Trinity is not taking the downward course. We sadly want men of rigour from Cambridge to counteract the modern-antique idolatries of the Oxford School'.