I recently read in the
daily paper an account of the way in which your father Mr. Trehawke
lost his life, and I caused inquiries to be made in Rosemarket
about your prospects. These my informant tells me are not any too
bright. You will, I am sure, pardon my having made these inquiries
without reference to you, but I did not feel justified in offering
you and my nephew a home with my sister Helen and myself unless I
had first assured myself that some such offer was necessary. You
are probably aware that for many years my brother James and myself
have not been on the best of terms. I on my side found his
religious teaching so eccentric as to repel me; he on his side was
so bigoted that he could not tolerate my tacit disapproval. Not
being a Ritualist but an Evangelical, I can perhaps bring myself
more easily to forgive my brother's faults and at the same time
indulge my theories of duty, as opposed to forms and ceremonies,
theories that if carried out by everybody would soon transform our
modern Christianity. You are no doubt a Ritualist, and your son has
no doubt been educated in the same school. Let me hasten to give
you my word that I shall not make the least attempt to interfere
either with your religious practices or with his.
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