Item 132 - Letter from Julius Charles Hare

6 pp.

Herstmonceux - JCH's brother, Augustus Hare, has died. Could WW recommend a master for JCH's Training school at Chichester: 'for various reasons it is thought that a Cambridge man would be more acceptable to a large part of the Diocese than one from Oxford. Of course nor do we wish for a man of eminent learning or talents, steadiness, sober mindedness, & piety are the qualities we want'. The number of pupils currently in the school is nine. JCH is annoyed at the possibility of Joseph W. Blakesley standing against John F.D. Maurice as the replacement to John Lonsdale at King's College, London: 'Surely, if there be a man who has a claim, for his services both to the College & to the whole English Church, it is Maurice. A great one he has just been rendering by his noble pamphlet, which, I trust, will do much good, teaching many, who are now bewildered, to understand themselves, their position, & their duties'.