Village books

Soon afterwards Harry
Quilter asked him to write for the Universal Review and he responded
with "Quis Desiderio . . .?" In this essay he compares himself to
Wordsworth and dwells on the points of resemblance between Lucy and
the book of whose assistance he had now been deprived in a passage
which echoes the opening of Chapter V of Ex Voto, where he points
out the resemblances between Varallo and Jerusalem.
Early in 1888 the leading members of the Shrewsbury Archaeological
Society asked Butler to write a memoir of his grandfather and of his
father for their Quarterly Journal. This he undertook to do when he
should have finished Ex Voto. In December, 1888, his sisters, with
the idea of helping him to write the memoir, gave him his
grandfather's correspondence, which extended from 1790 to 1839. On
looking over these very voluminous papers he became penetrated with
an almost Chinese reverence for his ancestor and, after getting the
Archaeological Society to absolve him from his promise to write the
memoir, set about a full life of Dr.


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