[Lord Halifax [Charles Lindley Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax], ecumenist.] Autograph Letter Signed to the editor of the Church Review, regarding a new chapel for Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, paid for by Halifax’s English Church Union.

See his entry, and that of Bishop King, in the Oxford DNB. For the context of the present item - a chapel ‘built by an ingenious use of a portion of the Old Palace ruins’ - see Randolph and Townroe, ‘The Mind and Work of Bishop King’ (1918), chapter 6: ‘The entire furnishing and decoration of the chapel was undertaken by members of the English Church Union, in response to an appeal made by the President of the Society. The consecration took place in 1888.’ (The Bishop’s letter of thanks to Lord Halifax is quoted.) 2pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged and worn. Folded twice. Addressed to ‘The Editor of the Church Review’ and signed ‘Halifax.’ He asks him to ‘publish in your columns the letter from myself to the Bishop of Lincoln, and the Bishop’s reply, which I was unfortunately unable to send last week’. He is still receiving ‘So many contributions’, that he intends to ‘send a second list of contributors to the Bishop, at the end of another fortnight, and later on, to publish an exact account of all that we shall have been able to do for the adornment of the Bishop’s Chapel’, ‘in every way satisfactory to those who have been concerned in it’.