- Glover/A/A5/38
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- 27 May 1938
Part of Papers of Terrot Reavely Glover
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.
Glover, Terrot Reaveley (1869-1943) classical scholar and historian