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ii Peter's College, Radley; and finally to your present station as organist and choirmaster of the Cathedral of York—a post beyond which your fondest ambition can scarce advance.

''You richly deserve all the honours you have attained, and the present state of the York choir will bear ample witness to the excellence of your training. You have set a pattern, and one which I devoutly wish were followed in other cathedrals. The glorious services of our Church would then be rendered as they ought to be, and organists escape the censure that is daily heaped upon them.''

''In the pleasant walks of Radley, in the old-fashioned recesses of Bodley's rich library, and in the beautiful aisles of York Cathedral, I have held converse with you. Your mind was ever open to the beauties of nature, the charms of ancient book-lore, or the glories of ancient architecture.''