[1] One of these unknown correspondents wrote that their vicar had that
Sunday begun--he would have said _commenced_--his sermon with the words,
"God is Love, as the Archbishop of Canterbury remarked last week in
Westminster Abbey."
[2] _The Guardian_, April 11, 1900: "Truth to tell, when I appreciated,
with much amusement, the light in which one was expected to regard Mr.
Gresley, I came to the conclusion that the authoress was paying out some
particular High Church parson, who had perhaps snubbed her or got the
better of her, by 'putting him into a book.' The poor, feeble creature
is described with appetite, so to speak, and when this is the case (with
a lady writer) one is pretty safe in being sure one has come across the
personal. Mr. Gresleys certainly exist, but only a woman in a (perhaps
wholly justified) tantrum would speak of them as a type of the clergy in
general."--THOS. J. BALL.