And still gratefully seek in her heart to enshrine
One more Reminiscence, and that shall be Thine.
From the DEAN of WESTMINSTER.
The Deanery, Westminster,
February 3, 1872.
My dear elder (I cannot say eldest so long as the Dean of Winchester lives) Brother--I am very glad that you are pleased with my attempt to render into English the Bishop's beautiful Latinity....
Accept our best wishes for many happy returns of the day just past.--Yours sincerely,
A.P. STANLEY.
On the publication of the Twentieth Edition of the Reminiscences, Professor Blackie addressed to the Dean the following sonnets:--
I.
Hail! wreathed in smiles, thou genial book! and hail
Who wove thy web of bright and various hue,