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Fragment of a letter in which Marriott mentions he has sent enclosures to Chase and writes of tension amongst Bishops and others.
Date
Winter 12-1826
Keywords
Welford, Liverpool, Hinckley, Lord Byron, Duke of Bedford, Lord Holland, Norris, Controversialist, Rugby Bible Society, John Bull
Recommended Citation
Marriott, G.W., "Letter to Philander Chase" (1826). Philander Chase Letters. 659.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/chase_letters/659
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As highly as ever did he of you. I could not get him to talk of the Bishop, tho’ I purposely mentioned him. I am anxious that the two enclosures should reach you, and hope I have now directed this right. I ought to have sent this to you from Welford, but am assured it will go as soon from hence, & will join the mail to Liverpool at Hinckley. How truly disgusting the attention paid to Lord Byron’s remains by the Duke of Bedford, Lord Holland etc is! I fear for Norris as you do. [Sikes] made him a Controversialist immediately after he had stept on the very threshold of religion from a region as wide as the Poles from it. It is easy to overlook ourselves, I fear, in a constant war with others, & to diminish our own faults while we [?] theirs.
There is a very curious paragraph about the Rugby Bible Society in John Bull of this week. Pray get a sight of it—
Yours ever very affectionately,
G.W.M.