is his story to his wife:--

_Munich, Sept. 30, 1845._--Yesterday evening after dinner with two
travelling companions, an Italian _negoziante_ and a German, I must
needs go and have a shilling's worth of the Augsburg Opera, where
we heard Mozart (_Don Juan_) _well_ played and very respectably
sung. To-day I have spent my evening differently, in tea and
infinite conversation with Dr. Doellinger, who is one of the first
among the Roman catholic theologians of Germany, a remarkable and a
very pleasing man. His manners have great simplicity and I am
astonished at the way in which a busy student such as he is can
receive an intruder. His appearance is, singular to say, just
compounded of those of two men who are among the most striking in
appearance of our clergy, Newman and Dr. Mill. He surprises me by
the extent of his information and the way in which he knows the
details of what takes place in England. Most of our conversation
related to it. He seemed to me one of the most liberal and catholic
in mind of all the persons of his communion whom I have known.
To-morrow I am to have tea with him again, and there is to be a
third, Dr. Goerres, who is a man of eminence among them. Do not
think he has designs upon me. Indeed he disarms my suspicions in
that respect by what appears to me a great sincerity....

DR. DOeLLINGER

_Oct. 2._--On Tuesday after post I began to look about me; and
though I have not seen all the sights of Munich I have certainly
seen a great deal that is interesting in the way of art, and having
spent a good deal of time in Dr. Doellinger's company, last night
till one o'clock, I have lost my heart to him. What I like perhaps
most, or what crowns other causes of liking towards him, is that
he, like Rio, seems to take hearty interest in the progress of
religion in the church of England, apart from the (so to speak)
party question between us, and to have a mind to appreciate good
wherever he can find it. For instance, when in speaking of Wesley I
said that his own views and intuitions were not heretical, and that
if the ruling power in our church had had energy and a right mind
to turn him to account, or if he had been in the church of Rome I
was about to add, he would then have been a great saint, or
so