W.E.GLADSTONE to DEAN RAMSAY.
Hawarden Castle, Chester, Jan.

3, 1870.
My dear Dean Ramsay--I send you my rather shabby contribution of L10 to the Chalmers' Memorial.

I wish it were more, but I am rather specially pressed at this time; and I think I refused Robert Bruce altogether not long ago.
I quite understand the feeling of the Scotch aristocracy, but I should have thought Lothian would be apart from, as well as above it.
But the number of subscriptions is the main thing, and very many they ought to be if Scotland is Scotland still.

He was one of Nature's nobles.

It is impossible even to dream that a base or unworthy thought ever found harbour for a moment in his mind.
Is it not extraordinary to see this rain of Bishoprics upon _my_ head?
Nor (I think) is it over; the next twelvemonth (wherever I may be at the end of it) will, I think, probably produce three more.
Bishop Temple is a fine fellow, and I hope all will now go well.