Autograph letter signed : Oxford, to William Angus Knight, 1893 November 9.

Relating news of "...our opening festival" at the College and the good reception and press attention it received; apologizing that no invitations were sent to Professors in Scotch Universities;" saying "We are usually supposed to be too eager for outside recognition & support: & perhaps occasional rebuffs made our authorities timid. And they could not play off their great man [James Martineau] & invite others to come & do him honour, for he forbade them in any way to use his name. He consented to conduct a Communion service, for instance, but only on condition that I should be prepared to take all his share if necessary, & till the moment when it began, I knew not whether he would feell that he could undertake it. Nor would he even pledge himself to come to Oxford at all. - But this is by the bye. We are pledged by our position here at least to aim at Catholicity: & though we may fail to realise our hopes yet Dr. Drummond's presence at the head of the College is a sufficient guarantee to those who know him, that he will do his best to preserve the utmost openness of view, the widest range of Catholicity;" adding that he hopes he may come to speak in their Chapel or Lecture Room.