“I most earnestly hope that I may be able to assist him, and, what is far more, that he may have that far better assistance which can alone be all-sufficient. . . . I have had a most happy vacation, and cannot say how I have valued it. I only trust that I may be able to repay a hundredth part of your and my father’s kindness to me by fraternal affection towards Joe. My motto with regard to him is— “‘Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot.’” During the month of September, in the year before this, his elder brother Samuel was married to Miss Catherine Hankinson. {27} There was a warm attachment between the brothers. Edward often writes in terms of great admiration of “Sam,” and now the new sister was received with equal affection into his heart. It was a feeling which grew and strengthened to the last day of his life, and was returned by her, being specially manifested in the tender care which she bestowed upon his motherless children more than thirty years afterwards. This, however, is anticipating, and it is suggested only by a letter from Cambridge dated November 9th, 1832, full of delight— “at the joyful news of the week. I am highly proud of my new avuncular honours. I begin to feel quite a strong affection to my new niece, which I never expected to do, at all events till I had seen her!” The same letter writes thankfully about the interest which he had been able to arouse in the University in connection with the British and Foreign Bible Society. There had been one collector in Cambridge previously, but young Hoare set to work and had the gratification of sending in more than a hundred guineas, fifty of which came from Trinity. He says, “I only hope that this success will encourage us to work hard during the next year.” His interest in the Society never waned, and it did well many years afterwards in making him one of its Vice-Presidents. We have an insight into a College Sunday in one of his letters at this time:— “We have had a delightful Sunday, and a most edifying sermon on the Conversion of St. Paul. After Hall I had a large party in my rooms, and we read one of Blunt’s Lectures on St. Paul. Our party after Hall has become rather a burden to me, it has grown so very large, as I have invited any persons who I thought would come and employ their time better than elsewhere; and now I feel that it is an opportunity which ought to be employed to good purpose, and I don’t know exactly how to go to work to do so.”