the Anglican Church was opened, Mrs Rosa Fanshawe, who had provided a
great deal of the money for the building, decided that a proportion of the offerings each week be given to alleviate the poverty of the area.
However, her return to England must have been brief, as by the summer of
1866 Mrs Boyce was back in Liguria and staying in San Remo: letters she writes
are from Hotel Victoria. Still interested in what she had experienced in Liguria,
she had obviously been keeping in touch with Lozeron and quite probably also
met other Italian Protestants. It is evident that she was not only concerned about
the school, but also about the small group of believers, and keen to do all she
could to support them.
Lozeron had met Professor Frederick Tholuck, the eminent evangelical
theologian from Halle, travelling with his wife and a young theological student, by whom Lozeron was impressed and who, when his studies in Halle
were finished, ‘would make up his mind to come to help forward the work in
Italy’. Louisa wrote to ask Ribet at Lozeron’s request – could the young man
concerned come to Florence to learn Italian and what would the expenses be?
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