Autograph letter signed : Fulham, to the Bishop of Ohio, 1844 January 13.

Discussing and defending, at length, his controversial Charge; apologizing for his delay in responding to his request and explaining his ill health in recent months and his recovery sufficient to allow him to hold "...Confirmations, in the course of which I laid my hands upon more than 20,000 persons;" saying he has "...communicated with Dr. Dealtry on the subject of your College [Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio]. Perhaps it is as well just at the moment that you have laid aside your intention of visiting England, for the purpose of obtaining supplies. We have been very glad to see you amongst us again, and I have no doubt you would have obtained what you wanted: but in the present state of the Church I am inclined to think that an Episcopal visit from the Transatlantic Church is not very desirable. I hope that the existing commotion will subside; whether without our being subjected to a more painful trial than we have yet gone through, remains to be seen. You have no doubt heard and seen how my Charge has been misunderstood and misrepresented. There is no part of the doctrinal division of it about which, when properly explained, there would I think, be much difference between us. Nor have I any doubt or misgiving as to the soundness of the principle enforced in the latter part, although whether I should have dwelt upon it with so much particularity, if I had calculated upon peoples unfairness & ignorance, may be questioned. I hope that the objectionable principles put forth in the Tracts for the Times are not gaining ground; but the infection has spread widely. Many however of those who are accused of holding those principles are certainly innocent of the charge. I am sorry to see that the differences to which they have given rise, are showing themselves in the American Church. May the author of peace and Lover of Concord heal the [torn away] which have been made in the [torn away] unity both here and the[torn away] disperse & enable us to hold the faith [and the] bond of peace! I may mention, that at the very time when the Record newspaper (professing to be an Episcopal but being really a presbyterian paper) was heaping abuse upon my Charge, the Bishop of Calcutta was reprinting it for distribution amongst his Clergy;" adding, in a postscript, I think that my views respecting Episcopal ordination are quite compatible with our practice of requiring the re-ordination of persons presbyterially ordained before they officiate in our Church. This however is required only by a [illegible] of comparatively recent date. Before the time of Charles II foreigners ordained in the Lutheran Reformed Churches were admitted to the cure of souls in our Church, or at least to ecclesiastical dignities, without being reordained; e.g. Casaubon & Antonio de Dominis."