In noticing the “Life of the Rt. Rev. Samuel Wilberforce, D.D., Lord
Bishop of Oxford, and afterwards of Winchester,” a writer in the
_Athenæum_ remarks:—“Busy he was, both in Oxford and in London, and his
correspondence with all kinds of people was unusually large. A large
proportion of his letters were written in the railway train, and dated
from ‘near’ this town, or ‘between’ this and that. We remember to have
heard from one who was his companion in a railway carriage that before
the journey was half-finished the adjoining seat was littered with
envelopes of letters which he had read, and with the answers he had
written since he started. All this undeniably shows energy and
determination, and power to work.”