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Manuscript letter, in which Glover writes that he was meant to go to Manchester on the 6th March to lecture on Euripides and to preach at the Union Chapel. However, since the 5th March, he has been in bed with a cold all day or at least for part of the day. He lectured two days ago and presented four men for M.A. degrees in the Senate House. Next week, he will go to Bristol to speak for Sammy Hughes at the Free Church Council. Carlile will have heard about Glover and his confederates, who at the Cambridge Association Committee did not endorse Aubrey's scheme. Glover sent Carlile a long letter at the beginning of February and he didn't answer. The Vice-Chancellor says that the officials of Cambridge University will have to wait on the King on 2nd April. On 1st July, Glover will receive his Litt.D. from Trinity College, Dublin. This was announced in the 'Irish Times' several weeks ago, but the news has yet to reach England. On 15th July, he will sail to Canada to lecture in Ottowa.

Manuscript letter, written from the Wilton Hotel, London. Glover wants Carlile and his wife to know how much he has enjoyed his stay with them and how much he would like to come again. The sea, ships, talks, arguments, walks, Platonism, matters concerning the 'Baptist Times', daffodils, etc. have been a huge pleasure for him. The Voyseys were at the station yesterday to see him off. Glover was very glad of this contact, since he does not often see them in Cambridge. The view of the primroses from the train window yesterday was delightful. They arrived in London twenty-four minutes late. It was a shock to see that Westminster Abbey had had a wash-and-brush-up, like the Cambridge Colleges. Glover read most of a book by the evangelist and journalist, Hugh Redwood (1883-1963) last night. He thinks he may leave the book somewhere for the finder to pick it up and read it (Redwood is, in his opinion, a good chap). But he will take the Latin book to Cambridge. Hopes that Carlile has a good time at the Spurgeon conference and sends his love.

Manuscript letter, in which Glover writes that it was a relief to be released from preaching last Sunday. The week has been very wearing, what with both the national anxiety and family trouble. The daily reports from Bristol have been positive, but any improvement is small and it is difficult to know what one ought to wish for her. She is cheerful and bright, but very weak. On national matters, the story of Edward VIII is one of the saddest Glover knows. What is he to do now? It is unthinkable. Sends his love to Mrs Carlile. It is forty-nine years today since Glover won his scholarship to St John's College.

Manuscript letter, in which Glover writes that he keeps thinking of Carlile and of a long ministry. There is a haunting line in Euripides' 'Hippolytus', where the dying hero says: "Full easily dost thou leave a long friendship" and Carlile cannot leave an old intimacy lightly. Sunday will not be a day of rejoicing for him; it cannot be, but it is, whatever Carlile feels, a day of thanksgiving. When one looks at one's friends and thinks how much they have done for oneself, without either of themselves realising it, why then it grows conceviable that love and service are not in vain. Carlile knows this and doesn't need an old College don like Glover to tell him this. But Carlile should let Glover for once add his thanks among the others, and let him say that Carlile doesn't know all he has done and is doing - that he isn't meant to know, but that other people know in bits and God knows all.