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It is proper to state, that the following Letters were written in answer to enquiries from different friends, and not volunteered ; the writers feeling, with many others who share their opinions, a reluctance to agitate, or to obtrude their sentiments upon the Public, though, at the request of those friends, they have from a sense of duty, since consented to have their sentiments made known.




Rectory, Whitechapel, Feb. 15, 1849.

My dear Sir,

In the midst of my always pressing work in this immense Parish, I can only give a hasty and brief view of my opinion on the subject of your Letter, viz. "the Marriage with a deceased Wife's Sister: still my view is, to me, clear and decided.

1. I assume that, in point of nearness, the relationship of a Brother to his deceased brothers Widow, is the same as that of a man to his deceased Wife's Sister. Two Brothers are successively married to the same Woman, in the one case ; and the same man to two Sisters in succession, in the second.

2. I assume that God would not command anything

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