Autograph Letter Signed ('A. P. Stanley') to unnamed male correspondent.

12mo: 2 pp. Thick mourning border. Good. The recipient has provided a partial interlinear transcription of what the New DNB describes as 'Stanley's execrable handwriting'. Stanley is 'much obliged for having [his] attention called to anything in the Abbey Services which requires rectification', and will 'make inquiry into the cause of [his correspondent's] complaint'. The 'inattention [...] will be remedied, so far as the nature of the case admits'. Regarding his correspondent's 'experience in the studies of Continental Churches', Stanley remarks that he 'must have been exceptionally fortunate, if [he has] never witnessed in them any similar or larger deviations from reverential devotion than is customary in the Church of England'.