[Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury.] Two Autograph Letters Signed to ‘Mr. Cremer’ (Sir Randal Cremer, Liberal MP), the first regarding the lack of 'reforming direction' from the present government..

Davidson is the longest-serving Archbishop of Canterbury since the Reformation. See his entry, and that of Cremer, in the Oxford DNB. Both items in good condition, lightly aged, and each with a postage fold. The first with glue to margin from mount. ONE (20 January 1891): 2pp, 12mo. Bifolium. Signed ‘Randall T. Davidson’. He thanks Cremer for his ‘letter about Mr Phillips’, and will bear in mind what he has said. ‘Such men are not to be gotten every day.’ He thinks it would be ‘rash’ for Cremer to ‘expect over much in the reforming direction either in Church or State, from the present Government!’ He end by beseeching him ‘not to build upon the hope of any powerful influence’ being within his range. TWO (7 February 1893): 3pp, 12mo. Signed ‘Randall T. Roffen:’ (i.e. as Bishop of Rochester). He begins by explaining that‘Convocation is in service this week & I fear I have no chance at all of a free half-hour before Saturday next’. It would however be a ‘pleasure to see’ Cremer, and he makes another suggestion, ending ‘I shd naturally be walking to the Athenaeum & we might get a further talk’.