The writer says he will pay two instalments to total ten pounds to Corrie in order to ensure his name is put on the College books. The writer says he has not known who to send the money to and thus has been putting off sending it by post. The writer then thanks Corrie for his ‘last long and most agreeable letter.’ The writer expresses his opinion that given what he has seen of the Oxford Tracts, he thinks they are calculated to enable misdoing in the Church more so than doing good either within or outside of the Church. He writes, ‘Newman must be a singular man’ and that he speaks of the Virgin Mary in ‘a most extraordinary manner for one who denies her to be a legitimate object of divine adoration, or worship of any inferior kind’. The writer expresses his distress at the present religious-political climate. Belaney states that famed historians have remarked that ‘it is with individuals as it is with ages: different virtues are tried by being oppressed by different evils’, which become strengthened at certain times, and vice versa. The writer states that the Christian virtue which now seems to be tried above all others is individual confidence. Belaney argues that at the present moment it takes ‘a most extraordinary effort’ to overcome all the evil existing around us, which tend to force a ‘spirit of absolute despair on the human heart’. He writes ‘Every thing seems in danger of being destroyed’, and that the works of the Devil is obeyed fervently by the present age. The impulse of piety and love, however, is ignored. The writer tells of his recent trip to Brighton where he heard accounts of ‘strife’ within the city and in the holy city, the Church, of hostility. The writer again expresses his conviction that these tales ‘promise nothing but a speedy destruction’. Belaney then frustratedly writes ‘Yet we will not, it appears, unite and make preservation of the Church a common cause’. He goes on to write ‘The Chruch us threatened with destruction by the State’. He goes on to assemble a range of apocalyptic images in a crescendo of his polemic. Belaney appears to sign off the letter abruptly, but has written several sections in a different tone on the envelope, overleaf from the main letter. He details a dispute with Mr Murray on having taken longer than the allowed time to complete a piece of work (?) and wishes that Mr Graham has achieved a position as a curate.