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CORRESPONDENCE WITH MR. BROOKE, ALLUDED TO BY THE PRIMATE, PAGE 17, AND BY THE WARDEN, PAGE 21.

I.

Mr. Brooke to the Warden.

seen your name in an English newspaper appended to a "Memorial to the Oriental Patriarchs," touching certain practices of the Bishop of Jerusalem, will you permit me to ask if you have indeed given your signature for such a purpose as that document sets forth.

As I have been frequently asked for my opinion of the merits of your College by parents in my congregation, I am naturally anxious to have all the information I can collect, which I trust may account, as well as apologise, for the intrusion. I am, Your faithful Servant in Christ,

II.

The Warden to Mr. Brooke.

[Shown privately to the Primate by the Warden's desire, October 27th.]

reply to your note of yesterday's date, I beg to say that my signature was attached to the document to which you allude, by my authority; in explanation of which,—as I gather from your note, that it seems to you to require an explanation,—permit me to state the principal motives that induced me to sign the Memorial to the Oriental Patriarchs. First, because I know that the proceedings of Bishop Gobat are in direct violation of the letter and spirit of the instructions given to the late Bishop Alexander, as embodied in the Metropolitan's Encyclical Letter to the Oriental Prelates.