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Secretaries and Committee have engaged to withdraw it from the official correspondence of the Society that it may be treated merely as a private communication from him to the Bishop (though I am quite unable to regard it in that character, and consider that whether public or private it should long ago have been absolutely withdrawn as an unjustifiable communication); further, when Mr. Russell knows, as I am sure he will know when he reaches this country, how much pain and distress that letter has occasioned-I repeat, I have a firm confidence he will deeply regret he ever wrote it; and, in that assurance, I concur in his nomination to the Missionary Bishopric.
I have to ask this Committee to receive this communication as a public document; to be entered upon the Minutes of the Church Missionary Society.
London, Church Missionary Hovar,
August 8th, 1870.
C. R. VICTORIA.
Resolution of the Church Missionary Society.
"That the Committee desire to record the satisfaction with which they have received the proposal of the Bishop of Victoria, and their thankfulness for the spirit in which it has been made, and that sub- ject to the approval of the Archbishop of Canterbury they are willing to concur in it as the basis of an arrangement."
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