| Description | "Decline availing myself of his compliment in offering to send for my inspection the plans of the intended new theatre. Still retain my old-fashioned opinions that the principle on which the subscriptions are raised is wrong, and that it is an unjust alienation of the Hospital Funds. My perception of the effects of the introduction of Taste and the Fine Arts upon a town like Birmingham apparently differ from those of my neighbours, in whose eyes they seem to have a higher value than in mine." |