To the Rev. Craufurd Tait.
My Dear Craufurd.
I write this on the evening of the day on which, I believe, you have made a good profession before many witnesses, and bound yourself by a solemn vow to the Lord.
With deep affection, and with many grateful and sacred memories, I offer you this volume.
May the Spirit which inspired its author six hundred years ago continually inspire you, and the Church of which you are now an ordained servant; and may He enable you, as a scribe instructed unto the Kingdom of God, to bring forth out of your treasures things new and old.
Margate, Second Sunday in Lent , 1874.