THOMAS HARDY: A LETTER FROM THE DEAN OF WESTMINSTER

to The Reverend R. Grosvenor Bartelot marked "Private" and dated "1928" relating to the Dean's permission to bury Thomas Hardy at the Abbey and the controversy about Hardy's Christianity; together with the response from The Reverend R. Grosvenor Bartelot dated January 18th 1928, in unfinished form " .... nevertheless I sincerely believe him to have been at heart a Christian and a churchman" (2)