Letter from Thomas Hartwell Horne, London, to the Rt. Rev. Charles P. McIlvaine, 1835 May 5 : autograph manuscript signed.

Inviting him to dinner and asking him to accept some books for his personal library including a Manual for the Afflicted, "...reprinted in Philadelphia under the editorship of Bishop Doane, who has added an appendix of Devotional Poetry which I intend to adopt when a new edition is printed. For the selection of tunes in the Book of Psalms I am chiefly responsible. They have been very accurately arranged by the organist whom I paid for the purpose, and are much used in churches. The Manual of Parochial Psalmody is, as you will see by the historical preface, an attempt to make the best of existing legal and authorized materials, and to restore the order of our psalmody somewhat to the order of the antient Christian Church - the copy sent is one of a small number printed on larger and finer paper than the rest of the impression, exclusively for presents. The accompanying letter on the Jubilee of our Protestant Reformation has already appeared in 2 or 3 London Journals. I have altered the exordium and had a small impression printed for private circulation. I expect that it will appear in most of our Church of England Journals next month. I shall send one to Bp. Doane and request him to submit a proposal to your triennial general convention, for commemorating the Reformation on Sunday Oct. 4, on which day (as you will see) we episcopalians have a text provided for us in one of the Psalms for the Day. If he sh'd bring it forward, will you support his proposal;" adding, in a postscript, My engagements at the museum, rigorously from ten till four, prohibit me from attending any of our religious meetings. The Printer gives me hopes that I may have a perfect copy of my Introduction in ten days from this time. If I cannot get a copy boarded in time for Kenyon College, I will send you one in sheets together with 2 or 3 of my smaller publications, for the College Library.