Autograph Letter Signed to "My dear Sir", (Edward B., 1800-1882, Founder of the Oxford Movement) by PUSEY

explaining that "the difficulty at Ascot is not as to any particular area, but as to taking any incurable or convalescent who is not paid for. The mortgage on the building requires an interest of £250 per annum, it has as yet no regular subscribers ... Will you be so good as to tell me when S. Mary Agnes begged for Ascot. She was sent begging by the late Devonport Mother, but besides this, she sold things. I paid a large debt (above £100) for things which she has bought in order to sell again ... and begged her not to beg for M. Dev. for she asked me to let her sell things to repay the debt. I allowed this for a time on condition that she should not beg for Ascot ... I told her that I was sure such a desultory life was not good for any one, and advised her to choose some more settled life in which to do something for God. She is not a member of the Devenport society ... She applied last year to Wantage ... She had not the slightest authority to offer to take one of your poor helpless children ... She could not think (if she thought at all) that a gift in one year could provide for the permanent support of a child ... she could not have meant to tell an actual untruth, but she must have known that it did not rest with her ...", 4 sides 8vo., Christ Church, Oxford headed paper, no date,