0.1. Bishop Randall Davidson to Sir Arthur Bigge, 7 May 1910, Llp Davidson 326, ff. 4–6, here ff. 4–5:

‘An important representation has been made to me this evening by the Dean of Westminster, who came here for the purpose. It is to the effect that many people are eagerly desirous that the actual interment should be, not at Windsor, but in Westminster Abbey. […] The Dean represents that an admirable and worthy place of interment could quite well be arranged in the Abbey, and that we should thus be going back to the great traditions of England's history in the past. […] In the case of Queen Victoria Frogmore was chosen, and this again was due to peculiar circumstances, and in itself it made a breach with even the Hanoverian tradition. The King will not be laid to rest at Frogmore; therefore there must now be a reverting to one of the historic shrines. And of course there is no comparison between Westminster Abbey and Windsor in regard to historic sentiment and the linking in with the great names of English history. / I have no wish myself to press the matter in any undue way. If the Royal Family are clear in desiring Windsor, their wishes ought to be [f. 5] paramount, whatever be the popular sentiment, but I am sure that the decision not to use the Abbey ought not to be taken lightly. You know the growing sentiment in favour of some new development of the Abbey's historic status as the burial place of England's greatest; and if it be decided that our beloved King – perhaps the most “popular,” in the true sense, of all England's sovereigns – should be laid to rest in the Abbey, it would obviously accord far better with popular sentiment than an interment at Windsor, either in the Royal Vault below the Memorial chapel or in the Memorial Chapel itself (which is already occupied by tombs or monuments of such importance as to make it difficult to give proper dignity and position to the tomb of such a sovereign). […] Personally my judgment would be in favour of the Abbey as the worthier place, although I am the last man in the world to derogate from the claims which Windsor has.’