“But I must restrain my feelings, and you must pardon me. I did not know that this good work was begun.
“Only get some thoroughgoing and able friend of the animal world to tell the tale to a British House of Parliament, and these philosophic torturers will be stayed in their detestable course.
“Yours,
“F. Close.”
(Dean of Carlisle.)
“27, Cornwall Gardens, S.W.,
“December 30th, 1874.
“My dear Miss Cobbe,
“I have an impression that the subject of Vivisection is to be brought before the Senate of the University of London, which consists mainly of great physicians and surgeons, but of which I am a member. Hence I think I hardly ought to sign the paper you have sent me.
“This, you see is an official answer, but I am glad to be able to make it, for the truth is I have neither thought nor enquired sufficiently about Vivisection to be ready with a clear opinion.