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Letter CCLXXXV.

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Without Address.

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The hearer of this letter is one on whom rests the care of our Church and the management of its property—our beloved son.

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Deign to grant him freedom of speech on those points that are referred to your holiness, and attention to the expression of his own views; so shall our Church at length recover herself, and henceforth be released from this many-headed Hydra.

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Our property is our poverty; so much so that we are ever in search of one to relieve us of it; for the expenses of the Church property amount to more than any profit that she derives from it.

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