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Show moreLetter to John Brodie Innes thanking him for a donation of 10 pounds toward the church restoration fund. Transcription: "The Vicarage, Downe, Beckenham, Augt. 27. 1873 Dear Mr. Innes, I beg you will accept my best thanks for your Cheque of ten pounds to wards our Chutch res -toration fund, which I received today. Your counsel as to modifying the Choral Elemint in our Services has been followed + I trust the [] is appreciated. There is a sculptor [] [] of [] here, which which renders any high flights in this direction impossible. A family is coming to [] from Orpington-Church people, who will, I hope set a good example. I fancy there is a rather bitter attendance since the restoration, + I am glad that Mrs Smith's chil dren have been Christened +[] + they come to Churc. Thank you, the Vicarage house is comfortable, but we have already [] [] of what we may expect by way of wind in in less genial seasons. un fortunately, trees do not grow up in a day. I hope we shall be spared the in fliction of a Schoolboard which is quite unnecessa ry, besides being both troublesome + expensive. If we continue to raise 100 pounds [] by rate coluntarily, we may do so. We now get a [] grand of 33 pounds a yr which, will, of course, reduce our rate W 5. or 6. in the pound. I remain, yrs truly G.S. Ffinden" Letter, signed by sender. Sent from The Vicarage, Down, Beckenham, Kent.
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Show moreLetter to John Innes, asking for his approval of a proposal. Transcription: "Secretary's Department, Bounty Office Dean's Yard, Westminster,S.W. 11th May 1874 Revd Sir/C. Downe As [patron?] of this Benefice and Down of 1,000 pounds, to obtain 200 pounds from the Governors and the patronage from the Archbishop of Canterbury, I have deemed it advisable to inform you that a proposal is before the governors to purchase of the Ecclesiastical Commisioners a [] of Lishe, [] amounting to 47.10.0 pounds for 1,200 pounds, and contingend on this purchase, the Commissioners are willing to add a further amount of [] amounting to 18 pounds per [] as an additional endorsement of the Benefice- I will [] you to state of pupable, by return of post, if you approve of this proposal- I am Revd Sir your obed Servt Joseph K Aston Secratary Revs J.B. Innes Approved JBI" Letter, signed by sender. Sent from Secretary's Department, Bounty Office, Dean's Yard, Westminster, S.W.
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Show moreLetter to John Brodie Innes on a variety of topics, like the church. Transciption: "Lady is not for sale. [Land??] us some good or fair [Churchman??] to buy it and reside with us. The Rectory, [Keston??] Beckenham, Kent 13 Oct. 1874 Dear Innes I hope you + Mrs. Innes are quite well enjoying this mild autumn + the fruits + fowls of the season. We are at [Keston??] without much change or will to report, and with all the blessings [connected] with my [alarm] and harvest we out to be [] + grateful. I have been hearing both sides of the great questions by being present first [at] the meeting of the British ass, at [] where [Tyndall] + [Huxley] [] [] and hearing enough [] "Materialism" and [] pretty well paid off by professors + preachers there, and Sir John Lubbock whose [mobilisation??] [] beautifully illustrated by his daugher and no doubt largely drawn from Darwin showed the correlation of flowers + insects intensify and only a little [] aside to air [Darwinism??]/ This last week I have for 4 days been a listener for some 6 hours a day at the Church Congress. I go to see while I hear the men and compare the [product??] with the [product??] in my own half [filter-ological] way. It explains much to me + the more the longer I live. Comparing those leading men named of the B. [] and the big men on the C. Congress such as Pr. Pritchard [filter] [firstborn??] Bp Woodford [] Barry []. I am somewhat comforted in being able [] to say that the [] in our generation as in many before, has conquered the giants of mind. But we had also babies "up" they were bearable [howard??] acting naturally - as babies, and were not [very] perverse children as the man of [] wanting proportionally strong powers of Moral judgement becomes, Both meet?ins were highly []. I suppose you have not been to London this past summer or I might have hoped to have seen you. Our communications are far between and I have some fear that in this case it is my fault. Is your son in London + quite well? At [] the church is firm the vicar + [] are well - he gives it resolutely - Has got Darwin in the wrong socially-chastised firm + cut them - He told me to remind you of his love - for your [money???] I []... [Last] Thompson" Letter, signed by sender. Sent from The Rectory, Keston, Beckenham, Kent.
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