Abstract
Abstract The Sussex Downs was a seductive place to go for a reading party, Walter Pater suggested to Hopkins. Hopkins put forward Salisbury as an alternative, because it was near a cathedral, with good country, and not far from George Herbert’s Bemerton, Lord Herbert’s church, Salisbury Plain, Stonehenge, and Avebury. But he and his friends took Pater’s advice and rented Whiting’s Farm, near Horsham, from Mr Henry Ings, for the last fortnight in July 1866. In bed on the night of 17 July, Hopkins ‘saw clearly the impossibility of staying in the Church of England’, but resolved ‘to say nothing to anyone till three months are over’. He also decided that he would not be received into the Roman Catholic Church until after he had taken his degree.
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