I have waited to announce your promised book, which is not yet come. Never mind. I have not yet digested, nor half digested, the Atlantis.^* It is a book useless to read quick. I have read your article^† but need to re-peruse it. That Catholicism was not only an influence, but the chief influence of good to Medieval Europe, I have always held, and hold as strongly as you, though with infinitely less knowledge. Your developments of this great phenomenon interest and must interest me. Call me earnest, my dear John, but not sensitive. I am rather "thick skinned." Do not fancy your letter could hurt me. It is all affectionate. If I value the doctrine of Immortality (which I hold with trembling hand, sometimes confident, sometimes with suspense of judgment) it is perhaps chiefly from the aid which it gives me to live. When I think, "Hereafter how these ignorances that separate us shall drop off; when we all ripen under the true Sun," the past furnishes deep fountains of love towards such as you, but Hope added glorifies Memory.

    "*The Atlantis, a Register of Literature and Science, conducted by Members of the Catholic University of Ireland." [Mozley, p. 206n.]
    "†'The Mission of the Benedictine Order.'" [Mozley, p. 207n.]