The Abbey and its music had for some years an enthusiastic visitor and admirer in a Lancashire collier [...] I made his acquaintance through the Purcell Festival, when he wrote saying how glad he was to hear that we were going to erect a monument to Purcell, and enclosing a subscription of 10s 6d. I showed the letter to the Dean, who sent the miner two tickets. He attended the Festival, and afterwards became a frequent visitor to the Abbey. [...] On a more notable occasion, viz., a rehearsal in Church House of the music for King Edward's Coronation, sure enough there was my collier sitting in the gallery, for which he had paid half-a-guinea. << less