We had invited Canon Liddon, who was a subscriber to our funds from the first, to join this Deputation, but received from him the following reply:
“Amen Court, 6th March, 1876.
“My dear Miss Cobbe,
“I should be sincerely glad to be able to obey your kind wishes in the matter of the proposed Deputation, if I could. But I am unable to be in London again between to-morrow and April 1st, and this, I fear will make it impossible.
“I shall be sincerely glad to hear that the Deputation succeeds in persuading the Home Secretary to make legislation on the Report of the Vivisection Commission a Government question. Mr. Hutton appeared to me to resist the —— criticisms of the Times on the Report very admirably!
“Thanking you for your note,
“I am, my dear Miss Cobbe,
“Yours very truly,
“H. P. Liddon.”
A few weeks afterwards when I invited him to attend a meeting he wrote again a letter, to the last sentence of which I desire to call attention as embodying the opinion of this eminent man on the human moral interest involved in our crusade.