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July 19th 1869
Rt. R. C. J. Quintard
Dear Sir
I have seated myself to address you a few times in relation to yesterday's services, but I am [u] as a [wf] have tp [confess] my [letter] my mortification & astonishment at the wrong you have [often] me in [misconinuing] my [matter] and vision of what [???] to you the grounds on which I [actual]
Bp Gregg has shown me a letter which you [put] into his hands on Saturday in relation to the unfortunate transactions of ---yesterday. To your views of the Canons and of the rights of Bishops within their own Dioceses I [spent so fully] & hastily as yourself, But it has ever been a weakness of mine to look upon [the] Canons of the Church like our civil laws, as made for wilful offenses, which, [the] law of love and charitable judgment should [base sute] among brothers. I therefore [flattered] myself that [between] you and me this a [unusted] so [fearful] an [understanding] [ill.] If I had not believed that I had offered to buy [ill.] your consent; [aye] and cheerful [wha...] to my [ordinary] this young man in your Diocese (I will not say in University Chapel, lest it might look like a claim to do so,) the hand that now pens these lines would sooner have [him] thrust into the flames than to have invaded your [xxxxxalines]. If in these I did not formally ask your permission I trustingly (and wrongfully as it now seems) [truth] is your question. But if I mistake not, I [ofroser] in your [ill.] a week in [two baptisms] of my desire to perform that office in your Chapel, and afterwards of Mr. [Jack] this Bp. Gregg [ill] or preach the ordination sermon. I will not [faintfully apound] - [as at] you heard what was said on these two occasions. But if I had in my too [confiding] (but - as it now seems [frus...tions])
