“Dear Miss Cobbe,
“I will attend the meeting of the 26th unless hindered by some unforeseen necessity, but I must ask you to send me a brief. I am so driven by work that for some time I have fallen behind your proceedings. Send me one or two points marked and I will read them up.
“My mind is more than ever fixed on this subject.
“Believe me, yours faithfully,
“Henry E., Card. Archbp.”
“Archbishop’s House, Westminster, S.W.,
“January 27th, 1887.
“My dear Miss Cobbe,
“For the last three weeks I have been kept to the house by one of my yearly colds; but if possible I will be present at the Meeting of the Society. If I should be unable to be there I will write a letter.
“I clearly see that the proposed Physiological and Pathological Institute would be centre and sanction of ever advancing Vivisection.