Letters and Correspondence [1827-1829]{141} THE Autobiographical Memoir being now concluded, the letters are resumed from the commencement of 1827. REV. J. H. NEWMAN TO HIS MOTHER Oriel College: February 1, 1827. I called on Bowden, as I passed Somerset House, and found him prepared for my arrival by a notice in the 'Morning {142} Post,' among the 'fashionable arrivals' (my card!). From what I have learnt since I fancy I figured among the fashionable departures. Fine subject for quizzing for my pupils! The Bishop of Oxford died last night, and it is supposed that Lloyd will be his successor, though Copleston, Pearson, the Warden of Wadham, the Bishop of Sodor and Man, are respectively spoken of. P.S.—I have not forgotten your wishes about some simple and plain commentary, yet I have not been able to satisfy them. At this date—1827—the country was agitated by the question of Roman Catholic Emancipation, the Bill for which was passed in 1829. Mr. Newman's sister meets in society a clergyman who wishes to hear her brother's views on the question. TO HIS SISTER HARRIETT March 19, 1821. News came this morning of the Dean of Durham's death, late head of Ch. Ch. Pusey has lost a brother. There is, as has been already shown, an easy tone in Mr. Newman's letters to his Mother which gives them a distinctiveness that may interest the reader, though the writer would have little thought of subjecting them to the eyes of strangers. {143} J. H. N. TO HIS MOTHER [Note 1] March 30, 1827. The new Bishop [Lloyd] presented himself in his wig in church last Sunday. He is much disfigured by it, and not known. People say he had it on hind part before ... Blanco preached a very beautiful sermon at St. Peter's last Sunday. What is the matter with Jemima, so mum is she? But she is industrious. Ah, I believe I owe her a letter, so the fault is mine. Young Oakley was elected Fellow of Balliol the other day. Does the sea blossom? Are green leaves budding on its waters, and is the scent of spring in its waves? Do birds begin to sing under its shadow, and to build their nests on its branches? Ah! mighty sea! Thou art a tree whose spring never yet came, for thou art an evergreen. There is a pastoral! With love to all, yours ever most dutifully, Tell Mary I was quite delighted with her lines; they showed great elegance, poetical feeling, and good religious feeling, which is better still. … I open my letter to answer your question from Mrs. O. The yearly college expenses with us do not amount to 80l. This includes board, lodging, servants, dues, tuition, coal washing, letters, and hair-cutting. I believe other colleges are about the same. The great EXPENSES of a college residence are in the private extravagance of the young man. If he will indulge in expensive wines and desserts, if he will hunt, if he will game, what can the college do? It forbids these excesses, indeed, and tries to prevent them; but where there is a will to do wrong there is a way. The college expenses of a careless man are indefinite. {144} J. H. N. TO HIS MOTHER May 7, 1827. TO HIS MOTHER June 10. By-the-bye, I have not told you the name of the individual who is to read with me [in the Long] ... he will not occupy more than an hour a day. At least, I have consented to give no more, and he consents to be a hermit at Brighton and then at Hampstead [where Mr. Newman had undertaken duty for six weeks of the Vacation, occupying the vicarage during the incumbent's absence]. By-the-bye, talking of hermits puts me in mind of Keble's Hymns, which are just out. I have merely looked into them [the word 'hermit' occurs]. They seem quite exquisite ... To return to my pupil, I think you have heard his name before; it is Onslow ... June 22.—Ah, the longest day is passed even before I send
this, Mute Mary! Well, since writing the above, we have heard from Pusey;
he passes through Oxford July 2, which tempts me to stay till that day
here ... My friend G. [Golightly] comes on July 4. I like him much, as
far as I know him, and doubt not, whether you see him little or much,
you will like him too, though he is better to know than to see. We are
having rows as thick as blackberries. What a thing {145} it is to be
vigorous, J. [Jemima], and to be dignified, H. [Harriett]. I am so
dignified it is quite overpowering. His Mother replies: June 26, 1827. The following letter is without date, but is written from Germany: E. B. PUSEY, ESQ., TO REV. J. H. NEWMAN August 26, 1827. H. W. WILBERFORCE TO REV. J. H. NEWMAN July 5, 1827. Again, a month later: I am quite jealous of Golightly, that he should be making {146} ground in your acquaintance, while I am deprived of the advantage which, however, I prize, I believe, as much as he can. In September 1827 Mr. Newman visited Mr. Rickards at Ulcombe, Mr. Robert Isaac Wilberforce being there at the same time. Mrs. Rickards writes a report of her visitors to Miss Newman. Ulcombe: September 12, 1821. He was very tired all the evening, but we managed to talk a good deal, and R. Wilberforce was as merry as he generally is. This morning I was treated by all three gentlemen coming into the drawing-room after breakfast, when a long discussion began which lasted near two hours, after which they adjourned, R. W. to read, the other two to talk and walk about the garden, from whence they only just returned to be ready for dinner at two o'clock. And now here is John come to keep me company, or rather to be plagued by the children. I wish you only could see him with both on his lap in the great arm-chair, pulling off and then putting on his glasses. They are quite overjoyed to see him ... Thursday.—This is a very rainy day. We have actually fires in each sitting-room. The gentlemen are all together in the larger room, employed upon the Epistle to the Romans, which is one of the things they are bent upon studying most diligently. I did not understand your warning respecting the designs afloat against Samuel. I have been asking him if he has discovered any. He says only that they seem determined to pump him well, and find out all he knows, enlightening him when he is deficient, &c. He says such examinations are worth more than three times as many hours of study alone. I hope the rest find the same to be the case. I cannot describe to you the enjoyment I have in listening. There is no intellectual pleasure so great or any from which one ought to profit so much as such conversation—but I shall talk of nothing else if I suffer my pen to go on on this subject ... {147} Last evening Mr. G.'s manuscript was read and commented on, but it
was voted too prolix and dull to be continued. I do not know what we
shall have tonight. We have read one of Keble's hymns all together and
shall have more of them I hope.—Your affectionate friend, Later on, J. C. N., in a letter to her sister, says of this meeting of friends: 'They seem to have spent their whole time in their readings and discussions. Their lightest reading, John says, was Cudworth's sermons.' J. H. N. TO HIS MOTHER Ulcombe: September 24, 1827. To explain a passage in the following letter from Ulcombe—Mrs. Rickards had an album in which she wished all her friends to write verses on flowers. The flower chosen by Mr. Newman was the Snapdragon. The verses begun when this letter was written were finished October 2. They may be found p. 17 of 'Verses on Various Occasions.' [Verses, No. 7] TO HIS SISTER MARY Ulcombe: September 29, 1827. … What if I have begun some lines on a flower? I am not obliged to do it. What if I have not? Who can make me ... We have had discussions without end on all subjects, and have been reading various things most assiduously, but what the Schools will say I know not. TO HIS MOTHER Oriel College: October 18, 1827. St. Mary's is sadly out of order inside, as might be expected, but it will be all set right by Christmas, and on the whole the alterations will (I doubt not) be a vast improvement. Trinity Chapel is under a course of restoration. Merton Grove is at length finished, and Alban Hall is rising from its ruins. R. Wilberforce will reside (I fancy) this term. I am much satisfied that you went to High Wood, though but for a day. I was much taken with Mr. Wilberforce. It is seldom indeed we may hope to see such simplicity and unaffected humility, in one who has been so long moving in the intrigues of public life and the circles of private flattery. TO HIS MOTHER October 22, 1827. I have been admitted a Congregation Examiner today. I have taken the
oaths. In allusion to anxieties which had lately been heavy upon her, Mrs. Newman writes to her eldest daughter: November 5. E. B. PUSEY, ESQ., TO REV. J. H. NEWMAN Brighton: November 1827. Since writing the above I have seen Sir M. Tierney [the Brighton physician]; his views are not very encouraging. After a very short time he plainly said that my case was 'very nearly what they called a general breakdown of the system.' Such, I think, were his words. I did before much wish to return to Oxford, to resume the office, &c. ... but after this statement, which is confirmed by the feeling of most painful weakness and liability to faintness, I fear it would be madness to attempt it. At this time Mr. Newman's two younger sisters were visiting Mrs. Rickards at Ulcombe, from whence Mary writes to her brother; fragments of her letters are given, partly for the sake of the superscription on the packet in which they {150} were found, and partly to show the charm of Mr. Rickards's personal influence on young people. Ulcombe: November 27, 1827. Again, writing on her return home: Brighton: December 4, 1827. What a nice creature Mrs. Rickards is! I always think of the word, I believe, you applied to her, 'fascinating,' for I think that is exactly what she is; and it is so amusing to hear Mr. Rickards and her talk to each other. I am so impatient to see you. How long is it before you come? Can it
be three, nearly four weeks? I think it seems longer since I saw you
than ever before. This letter is not to go till tomorrow—it will wait
for our having seen Pusey. Upon the above letter is inscribed these words: 'Scarcely more than four weeks after, she suddenly died.' J. H. N. TO HIS SISTER HARRIETT December 2, 1827. I do not see how my Mother can be civil to him. He does not go out to dinner, and as to breakfast, it would be so strange to ask him. Well, Copleston is a bishop and a dean. Shall we have a new Head or not? Which will be best, Keble or Hawkins? E. B. PUSEY, ESQ., TO MRS. NEWMAN December 1827 [Saturday evening]. It may, perhaps, be interesting to Mrs. Newman to know that there will be a vacancy in the Oriel Provostship. Mr. Pusey does not believe that it is any longer a secret, but it may be as well not mentioned beyond Mrs. Newman's immediate family. Should there be a difference of opinion as to the successor, it is a satisfaction to agree with J. N. on the subject. The following entry in the 'Chronological Notes,' under date Nov. 26. 1827, marks the commencement of that illness which, in looking back, is, in the 'Apologia,' classed with bereavement: Taken ill in the schools while examining, was leeched on the temples. November 28.—B. Wilberforce took me off to Highwood. Consulted Mr. Babington. December 14.—Went from London to Brighton. This is the first mention of the valued medical adviser on whom Mr. Newman relied with unfailing trust till death removed his friend from him. Some letters remain of Dr. Babington's amongst Mr. Newman's papers. The reader will remember that in the account of his failure, when he stood for honours in 1820, there is an allusion to this attack in 1827 as a repetition of the same symptoms, only in a severer form, from which he then suffered. {152} TO HIS MOTHER Highwood Hill: December 11, 1827. Thank yourself, Mary and H. for your joint letter. Golden Square: December 13. The reader has not now to be told that at the election of Provost Mr. Newman voted for Mr. Hawkins. From the following letter it may be gathered that Mr. Keble had keen interests on the question, which, however, is a different thing from desiring for himself such a total change of life. REV. J. H. NEWMAN TO REV. J. KEBLE Marine Square, Brighton: December 19, 1827. I write now because Pusey has told me that you would like to receive a line from any of the Fellows, even though you have already heard their feelings on the subject before us all; and I am led to mention my reason for not having written before (which I otherwise should not have done), lest you should think my conduct less kind to you than in intention it has really been. I have been so conscious to myself of the love and affectionate regard which I feel towards you, that the circumstance of my not thinking you the fittest person among us in a particular case and for a particular purpose seemed to me an exception to my general sentiments too trivial to need explanation or remark—to myself; but I have forgotten that to you things may appear different—that this is the first time I have had an opportunity of expressing any feeling towards you at all; and that, consequently, it would have been acting more kindly had I spoken to you rather than about you. Forgive me if I have in any way hurt you or appeared inconsiderate. I have lived more with Hawkins than with any other Fellow, and have thus had opportunities for understanding him more than others. His general views so agree with my own, his practical notions, religious opinions and habits of thinking, that I feel vividly and powerfully the advantages the College would gain when governed by one who, pursuing ends which I cordially approve, would bring to the work powers of mind to which I have long looked up with great admiration. Whereas I have had but few opportunities of the pleasure and advantage of your society: and I rather suspect, though I may be mistaken, that, did I know you better, I should find you did not approve opinions, objects, and measures to which my own turn of mind has led me to assent. I allude, for instance, to the mode of governing a college, the desirableness of certain reforms in the University at large, their practicability, the measures to be adopted with reference to them, &c. It is ungracious to go on, particularly in writing to you above others; for you could easily be made to believe anyone alive was more fit for the Provostship than yourself. I have said enough, perhaps, to relieve you of any uneasy feeling as regards myself: the deep feelings I bear towards you, these I shall keep to myself.—Yours ever affectionately [Note 3]. {154} REV. JOHN KEBLE TO REV. J. H. NEWMAN December 28, 1827. [1828]The first entry in the 'Chronological Diary' for the year 1828 is in these words: January 5.—We lost my sister Mary. In the 'Apologia' there is the following allusion to this event: The truth is, I was beginning to prefer intellectual excellence to moral: I was drifting in the direction of liberalism. I was rudely awakened from my dream at the end of 1827 by two great blows—illness and bereavement. It happened to the present writer to read—more than fifty years after this bereavement—a letter from Mary Newman to her Mother, so remarkable for sweet playfulness, and, if the term may be used, for the quality of simplicity, in its most bright picturesque form, that, on occasion of writing on some family concern to Cardinal Newman, it was natural to {155} speak of the impression it had made. Shortly after came the following note from him, with an enclosure: You spoke with so much interest lately of my dear sister Mary that I send you what I have just received from Maria Giberne [Note 4]. The letter brings the scene so vividly before the reader that its insertion will not be thought out of place here. M. R. G. TO H. E. CARDINAL NEWMAN … But I do not want to talk of myself. I want to tell you of my entire sympathy with you in what you say and feel about the anniversary of our dear Mary's death. This season never comes round without my repassing in my heart of hearts all the circumstances of those few days—my first visit to your dear family. Who could ever behold that dear sweet face for any length of time and forget it again? And again, who could ever have been acquainted with the soul and heart that lent their expression to that face and not love her? My sister Fanny and I arrived at your house on the 3rd [of January], and sweet Mary, who had drawn figures under my advice when she was staying with us at Wanstead, leant over me at a table in the drawing-room, and in that sweet voice said, 'I am so glad you are come; I hope you will help me in my drawing.' I forget about the dinner and evening on that day, for I was doubtless under considerable awe of you in those first days; but the next day Mr. Woodgate and Mr. Williams dined there, and dear Mary sat next you, and I was on the other side; and while eating a bit of turkey she turned her face towards me, her hand on her heart, so pale, and a dark ring round her eyes, and she said she felt ill, and should she go away? I asked you, and she went: I longed to accompany her, but dared not for fear of making a stir. It was the last time I saw her alive. Soon after Jemima went after her; and then your Mother, looking so distressed; and she said, 'John, I never saw Mary so ill before; I think we must send for a doctor.' You answered as if to cheer her, 'Ah, yes, Mother, and don't forget the fee.' How little I thought what the end would be! Next morning Harriett came to walk with us about one o'clock—after the doctor had {156} been, I think—but though she said Mary had had a very bad night, she did not seem to apprehend danger. We went to dine with a friend, and only returned to your house about nine. I felt a shock in entering the house, seeing no one but you—so pale and so calm, and yet so inwardly moved; and how, when I asked you to pray with us for her, you made a great effort to quiet your voice, sitting against the table, your eyes on the fire, and you answered, 'I must tell you the truth: she is dead already.' Then you went to fetch vinegar, which I did not need, for I felt turned to stone. Fanny cried—I envied her her tears. You told us a little about her, with gasping sobs in your voice, and then you left us. My tears come now in writing it, though they would not then. I never cry suddenly—I must think about it first. Now, dearest Father, I hope while I relieve my own heart by speaking of these sad scenes, I am not selfishly overtaxing your feelings; but I think you will not mind it, for you like to go over old times as well as I do, I think; and I cannot tell all this to anyone but you. Do you recollect that you and I are the only survivors of that event? And then how can I ever forget all your kindnesses to me because of my toothache [she had undergone a painful, unsuccessful operation at the dentist's]? How your Mother sent out for soft cakes soaked with wine—the only thing I could manage to eat. You all seemed so unselfish in your grief, forgetting your own trouble to minister to my wants. I was deeply touched, and learnt a lesson which, though I have not practised as I ought, I have always striven to imitate: not to suffer myself to be so absorbed by my own feelings as that I could not feel for others. This scene, recalled after fifty years, is given as fulfilling the promise or the prophecy made in the first freshness of sorrow, which forms the closing verse of the poem entitled 'Consolations in Bereavement.' From these home scenes of trial Mr. Newman, in returning to Oxford, had to take share at once in a college election which had issues important to himself, and with which the fourth chapter of the Memoir is concerned. {157} J. H. N. TO HIS MOTHER January 31, 1828. My journey fagged me much. I arrived here by half-past six. The Bishop [Copleston] was in the Common-Room, and I joined the party. He left yesterday morning. Yesterday I took a long and delightful ride, but the stench of the retiring waters in our quadrangle is odious, and the air in Oxford is thick and damp. The inside of St. Mary's is nearly complete. The following letter from his Mother dwells on the subject foremost in her mind. February 18, 1828. Dr. Hawkins, as Provost, resigned St. Mary's. The following entries in the 'Chronological Record' give the dates: March 9.—Did duty at St. Mary's in the afternoon, and preached. The following letter to his sister Jemima is taken from her collection of his letters. The reader of Mr. Newman's parochial sermons will recognise in that entitled 'The Lapse of Time,' passages which had their impulse in the thoughts here expressed. Oriel College: March 9, 1828. Dear Jemima, I know you love me much, though your disposition does not lead you to say much about it, and I love you too, and you (I trust) know it. Carefully take down, if you have not already, all you can recollect that dear Mary said on every subject, both during the time of her short illness and the days before; we shall else forget it. Would it not, too, be desirable to write down some memoranda generally concerning her?—her general character, and all the delightful things we now recollect concerning her. Alas! memory does not remain vivid; the more minute these circumstances the better. To talk of her thus in the third person, and in all the common business and conversation of life, to allude to her as now out of the way and insensible to what we are doing (as is indeed the case), is to me the most distressing circumstance, perhaps, attending our loss [Note 5]. It draws tears into my eyes to think that all at once we can only converse about her, as about some inanimate object, wood or stone. But she 'shall flourish from the tomb.' And, in the meantime, it being but a little time, I would try to talk to her in imagination, and in hope of the future, by setting down all I can think of about her. But I must not selfishly distress you. God bless you, my dearest Jemima. {159} J. C. N. TO HER BROTHER J. H. N. March 17, 1828. TO HIS MOTHER April 1, 1828. I take most vigorous exercise, which does me much good. I have learned to leap (to a certain point), which is a larking thing for a don. The exhilaration of going quickly through the air is for my spirits very good. I have a sermon to prepare for Warton tomorrow [Note 6]. TO HIS SISTER HARRIETT Oxford: April 21, 1828.
I am conscious they need much correcting, which at times it will be a solace to me to give, but such as they are you will not dislike them. It goes to my heart to think that dear Mary herself, in her enthusiastic love of me, would so like them could she see them, because they are mine. May I be patient! It is so difficult to realise what one believes, and to make these trials, as they are intended, real blessings. {161} TO HIS SISTER JEMIMA Oriel College: May 10, 1828. … Poor Pusey came here last Monday. He is much thrown back, and his spirits very low. He proposes being ordained on Trinity Sunday. I suppose his marriage will take place shortly after. He, Pusey, is going to change his name to Bouverie; this, however, is quite a secret. … In accordance with my steady wish to bring together members of different colleges, I have founded a dinner club of men about my own standing (my name does not appear, nor is known as the founder). We meet once a fortnight. One fundamental rule is to have very plain dinners [Note 7]. I am very regular in my riding [enjoined by his doctor], though the weather has not on the whole been favourable. On Thursday I rode over to Cuddesdon with W. and F. and dined with Saunders. It is so great a gain to throw off Oxford for a few hours, so completely as one does in dining out, that it is almost sure to do me good. The country, too, is beautiful; the fresh leaves, the scents, the varied landscape. Yet I never felt so intensely the transitory nature of this world as when most delighted with these country scenes. And in riding out today I have been impressed more powerfully than before I had an idea was possible with the two lines:
I could hardly believe the lines were not my own and Keble had not taken them from me. I wish it were possible for words to put down those indefinite, vague, and withal subtle feelings which quite pierce the soul and make it sick. Dear Mary seems embodied in every tree and hid behind every hill. What a veil and curtain this world of sense is! beautiful, but still a veil. REV. E. SMEDLEY TO REV. J. H. NEWMAN May 17, 1828. REV. J. H. NEWMAN TO REV. E. SMEDLEY May 29, 1828. For myself, my college engagements do not allow me to keep pace with the 'Encyclopædia.' I am now slowly turning my attention to Gnosticism. Will you allow me to express the concern I felt at hearing there was some hesitation in the minds of the proprietors of the 'Encyclopædia,' concerning the right of the contributors to publish their papers in a separate shape? For myself, I have no present intention of exerting the right, supposing it to be one, as I certainly understood it was, when I sent Mr. Mawman the article on 'Cicero and Apollonius.' ... This feeling is entertained by every Oxford contributor whom I have heard mention the subject. Dr. Whately requests me to inform you that his friend, Dr. Hampden, lately editor of the 'Christian Remembrancer,' [Note 8] is not unwilling to have his name added to the list of contributors to the 'Encyclopædia,' if you have employment for him, and he considers you will find him a great acquisition. REV. E. SMEDLEY TO REV. J. H. NEWMAN June 1828. In June 1828 is entered into Mr. Newman's 'Chronological Notes' the following passage: June 1.—Pusey ordained. [He read prayers for me in the evening at St. Mary's, and reminded me years afterwards that I said to him, 'If you read from your chest in that way it will kill you.' And, in fact, about 1832 he had read himself dumb.] J. H. N. TO HIS SISTER HARRIETT June 4, 1828. Good-bye, my dear Harriett, both our minds are full of one subject, though we do not speak of it. Not one half-hour passes but dear Mary's face is before my eyes. The following letter—the first that is found of his correspondence with Hurrell Froude—is notable also as showing an intimacy with Mr. Henry Wilberforce, and a recognition, veiled under a tone of disparagement, of the charm of his bright and playful wit. REV. J. H. NEWMAN TO REV. R. H. FROUDE June 22, 1828. In July Mr. Newman joined his Mother and sisters at Brighton. REV. J. BLANCO WHITE TO REV. J. H. NEWMAN Brighton: July 16, 1828. Whately was here two days; unfortunately I was too ill to enjoy to the full the pleasure of his company. But it was really amusing to see him playing at ducks and drakes with D. [Blanco White's pupil], and beating him hollow. He ate and drank and joked like Hercules in the 'Alcestis.' There is no man with whom I have associated so many classical passages. What do you think of the following description of our friend going to an Oxford dinner?—Nunc in reluctantes (Magistros) Egit amor dapis atque pugnæ ... July 25, 1828, there is an entry in the 'Notes': Sent letter to the Bishop of London (Howley) accepting Whitehall preachership. [N.B. This is quite consistent with what is said in my 'Apologia.' At this time there were twelve preachers from each university. I agreed to be one of these, but when Blomfield soon after became Bishop of London he turned all twenty-four out, and began a plan of one (or two?) from each University, and it was one of these (preacherships) which he sounded me about, and which I conditionally accepted.] REV. R. I. WILBERFORCE TO REV. J. H. NEWMAN July 28, 1828. REV. JOHN KEBLE TO REV. J. H. NEWMAN July 1828. REV. J. H. NEWMAN TO REV. J. KEBLE 11 Marine Square, Brighton: July 31, 1828. I have just heard of the appointment of John Sumner to Chester, which
has given me sincere pleasure. I suppose it will be generally popular
... I am employed in reading with great interest Heber's Journal ... I
think it may do a great deal of good. Most pious men who have gone out,
have hardly had that flexibility and elasticity of religious principle
which can accommodate itself to the world, and have worked stiffly.
Henry Martyn, in spite of the romantic interest attending him, is (is he
not?) an instance. The name of Dr. Pusey and his work for the Church have become such world-wide facts, that it may interest the reader to see some criticisms (one notice has already been given) of his first work before his name was widely known. REV. S. RICKARDS TO REV. J. H. NEWMAN August 7, 1828. REV. R. H. FROUDE TO REV. J. H. NEWMAN August 12, 1828. I have a brother now at home [William Froude] who is coming to Oriel next term, and will make a very good hand at mathematics unless he is very idle. After plans for his Mother's and sisters' stay at Nuneham, Mr. Newman tells his sister Jemima of his first visit to Keble, then living with his father. He writes after a rainy season: Oriel College: August 19, 1828. The letter then diverges to other persons and things, ending with: ... What a gossiping letter this last half has been! It is quite a girl's letter. Ah! I feel ashamed. REV. J. KEBLE TO REV. J. H. NEWMAN August 20, 1828. On the question of the tutorship Mr. Robert Wilberforce writes to Mr. Newman: September 3, 1828. 1. The increased facility of dividing the men into proper classes. At present perhaps one set of freshmen have entered upon a course of historical reading, and made some way in it—when a single one comes up, who is put in temporary lectures with men of quite different standing, that he may wait till enough are come to form a second historical class. 2. A further advantage would be that the men would not so soon become indifferent to exposing themselves before one another as they do at present. Now, when a freshman is put into a lecture with senior men, and sees them neglect all preparation, he learns to do the same. A lecture composed entirely of freshmen is always most easy to manage. 3. Another advantage would be that the tutor would be able to judge more accurately of the progress of his pupil by comparing his advance with that of his contemporaries. {168} 4. Another difficulty at present existing, is that felt in giving advice to a pupil as to the quantity of subjects he should undertake, the preparation he should make for the Schools, &c. It is only, of course, by observing a number of persons, seeing how long they went on attending [or not attending—J. H. N.] to fresh subjects, and when they began to concentrate their attention, that we can form any rule for our guidance in giving such advice. 5. As regards the men themselves. It is a great advantage to them to know whereabouts they are in their academical life. Many respectable men spend a great deal of time in study during the early part of their residence; but, postponing perhaps an accurate attention to scholarship, or the reconsideration of what they have done, suddenly find themselves without time for so doing. Were there a larger number who went on together, they would be in a certain degree a check upon one another. 6. Were more men brought together, a greater degree of stimulus would be given to them. If a man finds himself inferior to one who came up before him, he does not think of referring it to any deficiency in exertion. The thing cannot be effected immediately, though I don't see why it should not be done next year. The temporary inconvenience of the men cannot weigh against their own permanent good, which is the object proposed. If anything of this kind is to be done, it would be advisable, perhaps, to suggest it to the Provost [Hawkins], that, if approved by him, it might be submitted to the absent Fellows, who, as owners of rooms, are interested in it. REV. J. BLANCO WHITE TO REV. J. H. NEWMAN September 11, 1828. Reflection soon came to tell her sad tale; but it was too late: and here I am with an engagement upon me which I dare say alarmed at one time the formidable Gifford [Editor of the 'Quarterly.' Murray tried to get Blanco White over to him, giving up the prospect of the 'London Review.'—J. H. N.], who had the sting of a wasp at the tip of each of his fingers. There is but one way for such an [aoplos] creature as myself to be saved from being crushed—my friends must stand round me, especially my Oriel friends. Well, then, sharpen your pen and give me an article on any subject you like, Divinity excepted for the present, for of that I expect a flood. You must not decline, my dear Newman. You must also do me the kindness to engage Pusey to write something for me. Will you inquire the direction of Mills of Magdalen for me? Do you think your brother would write for me? I want materials for two numbers before I publish the first. I intend to spend a month in Oxford during the next full term. I will keep lodgings there till the fate of the Review is ascertained. Mr. Newman seems to have answered Blanco White in a friendly and encouraging tone, for within a fortnight he writes in reply: REV. J. BLANCO WHITE TO REV. J. H. NEWMAN September 23, 1828. A day or two later he acknowledges another letter from Mr. Newman, in which it appears he had suggested two subjects: one on poetry, which was written at once, and has been reprinted among the author's works under the title 'Poetry with reference to Aristotle's "Poetics,"' and a second on music, which seems to have remained an idea only. The Review, for reasons given in a note to the republished article, ended with its second number [Note 10]. Blanco White writes to a friend, May 20, 1829, 'My compact with the evil spirit, the demon of the book-market, is almost at an end ... I hope very soon to be entirely free from the nightmare of the "London Review."' J. H. N. TO HIS SISTER HARRIETT August 20, 1828. REV. J. KEBLE TO REV. J. H. NEWMAN October 9, 1828. THE BISHOP OF LLANDAFF TO REV. J. H. NEWMAN [Note by J. H. N.—This letter is a good specimen, from the 'My dear sir' at the beginning to the 'My dear sir' at the end, of his real kindness, yet ingrained donnishness.] October 28, 1828. I hope your health is quite restored, and I am inclined to conclude that it is by your silence on the subject. Dornford also is not the worse, I trust, for his Highland rambles. I was glad to hear of him from a lady who met him en route. It is well that Oriel has so good a treasurer as yourself. Without meaning any reflection on former treasurers, I think you will improve the system; at least you will not be content with copying precedent blindly, but will accommodate your method to the changes which time is for ever bringing on, {172} and study continual improvement, which is the way in all things to prevent both degeneracy and revolution. I beg to be kindly remembered to the Provost, and to all your
colleagues, and am, my dear sir, REV. BLANCO WHITE TO REV. J. H. NEWMAN November 8, 1828. J. H. N. TO HIS SISTER HARRIETT After describing a busy day: November 11, 1828. Dear Pusey is gazetted. I hope he will not overwork himself. How desirable it seems to be to get out of the stir and bustle of the world, and not to have the responsibility and weariness of success! Now, if I choose to wish a scheme, and in my solitary rides I sometimes do, I should say, 'Oh, for some small cure of a few hundreds a year, and no preferment, as the world calls it.' But you know this is wishing for idleness, and I do not think I shall have this obscurity, {173} because I wish for it. Yet, see, I talk of the comfort of retirement—how long should I endure it were I given it. I do not know myself. [1829]REV. DR. PUSEY TO REV. J. H. NEWMAN [Note 11] January 10, 1829. REV. J. H. NEWMAN TO REV. S. RICKARDS Oriel College: February 6, 1829. J. H. N. TO HIS SISTER JEMIMA February 8, 1829. From this state of pensive calm melancholy there follows the rebound, which is a characteristic of Mr. Newman's nature, and which may be observed throughout his course. TO HIS SISTER HARRIETT February 17, 1829. TO HIS MOTHER February 26, 1829. I will tell you why the Provost is 'meddling'—because when Ch. Ch. had resigned Peel, he chose to turn the opposition to him, without inquiring, into a cabal; and suddenly got up an opposite party without speaking to any of us [i.e. the Oriel Common-Room] on the subject, and brought clamour and faction in, when Ch. Ch. was quietly seeking for a member, and would most probably have chosen a man moderately favourable to Catholic Emancipation. This I call awkward 'meddling'; and if he fails he will have burned his fingers. If he succeeds he will bring in by a poor majority a man who has hitherto come in unanimously—this is a sorry triumph. I am deeply grieved at something else. Blanco White (I know his way so well) wrote a letter to some Oxford friend stating his change of views about Catholic Emancipation. Why not let him change with the mass of the nation? No, it served the purpose of the Peelites to bring his name forward. He is asked to publish—generously and devotedly he does it; {177} and thus he is made the victim of an electioneering purpose. He has brought upon himself all sorts of attacks, odious personal attacks. It is too bad to inflict upon individuals favourable to Catholic Emancipation the most difficult task of striking a balance between their disgust of Mr. Peel and their friendly disposition towards the Catholic question. Hence some Emancipatists have taken one side, some another; some have remained neuter; some have taken a side and half repented—all have felt a difficulty. This, I say, all arose from the indelicacy of those who thrust Mr. Peel on the University. TO HIS MOTHER March 1, 1829. Their insolence has been intolerable; not that we have done more than laugh at it. They have everywhere styled themselves the 'talent' of the University. That they have rank and station on their side I know; and that we have the {178} inferior colleges and the humbler style of men. But as to talent, Whately, with perhaps Hawkins, is the only man of talent among them; as to the rest, any one of us in the Oriel Common-Room will fight a dozen of them apiece—and Keble is a host; Balliol too gives us a tough set, and we have all the practical talent, for they have shown they are mere sucking pigs in their canvass and their calculations. Several days since, their London chairman wrote to Mr. Peel assuring him of complete and certain success. They strutted about (peacocks!) telling our men who passed through London that they should beat by eight to one, and they wondered we should bring the matter to a poll. We endured all this, scarcely hoping for success, but determining, as good Churchmen and true, to fight for the principle, not consenting to our own degradation. I am sure I would have opposed Mr. Peel had there been only just enough with me to take off the appearance of egotism and ostentation; and we seriously contemplated about ten days since, when we seemed to have too slight hopes of victory to put men to the expense of coming up, we the resident seventy, simply and solemnly to vote against Mr. Peel, though the majority against us might be many hundreds. How much of the Church's credit depended on us residents! and how inexcusable we should have been, if by drawing back we had deprived our country friends of the opportunity of voting, and had thus in some sort betrayed them. Well, the poor defenceless Church has borne the brunt of it, and I see in it the strength and unity of Churchmen. An hostile account in one of the papers says, 'High and Low Church have joined, being set on rejecting Mr. Peel.' I am glad to say I have seen no ill-humour anywhere. We have been merry all through it. TO HIS MOTHER March 13, 1829. We live in a novel era—one in which there is an advance towards universal education. Men have hitherto depended on others, and especially on the clergy, for religious truth; {179} now each man attempts to judge for himself. Now, without meaning of course that Christianity is in itself opposed to free inquiry, still I think it in fact at the present time opposed to the particular form which that liberty of thought has now assumed. Christianity is of faith, modesty, lowliness, subordination; but the spirit at work against it is one of latitudinarianism, indifferentism, and schism, a spirit which tends to overthrow doctrine, as if the fruit of bigotry and discipline—as if the instrument of priestcraft. All parties seem to acknowledge that the stream of opinion is setting against the Church. I do believe it will ultimately be separated from the State, and at this prospect I look with apprehension—(1) because all revolutions are awful things, and the effect of this revolution is unknown; (2) because the upper classes will be left almost religionless; (3) because there will not be that security for sound doctrine without change which is given by Act of Parliament; (4) because the clergy will be thrown on their congregations for voluntary contributions. It is no reply to say that the majesty of truth will triumph, for man's nature is corrupt; also, even should it triumph, still this will only be ultimately, and the meanwhile may last for centuries. Yet I do still think there is a promise of preservation to the Church; and in its Sacraments, preceding and attending religious education, there are such means of Heavenly grace, that I do not doubt it will live on in the most irreligious and atheistical times. Its enemies at present are: (1) The uneducated or partially educated mass in towns, whose organs are Wooler's, Carlisle's publications, &c. They are almost professedly deistical or worse. (2) The Utilitarians, political economists, useful knowledge people—their organs the 'Westminster Review,' the 'London University,' &c. (3) The Schismatics in and out of the Church, whose organs are the 'Eclectic Review,' the 'Christian Guardian,' &c. (4) The Baptists, whose system is consistent Calvinism—for, as far as I can see, Thomas Scott, &c., are inconsistent, and such inconsistent men would in times of commotion split and go over to this side or that. (5) The high circles in London. (6) I might add the political indifferentists, but I do not know enough to speak, like men who join Roman Catholics on one hand and Socinians on the other. Now you must not understand me as speaking harshly of individuals; I am speaking of bodies and principles. {180} And now I come to another phenomenon: the talent of the day is against the Church. The Church party (visibly at least, for there may be latent talent, and great times give birth to great men) is poor in mental endowments. It has not activity, shrewdness, dexterity, eloquence, practical power. On what, then, does it depend? On prejudice and bigotry. This is hardly an exaggeration; yet I have good meaning and one honourable to the Church. Listen to my theory. As each individual has certain instincts of right and wrong antecedently to reasoning, on which he acts—and rightly so—which perverse reasoning may supplant, which then can hardly be regained, but, if regained, will be regained from a different source—from reasoning, not from nature—so, I think, has the world of men collectively. God gave them truths in His miraculous revelations, and other truths in the unsophisticated infancy of nations, scarcely less necessary and divine. These are transmitted as 'the wisdom of our ancestors,' through men—many of whom cannot enter into them, or receive them themselves—still on, on, from age to age, not the less truths because many of the generations through which they are transmitted are unable to prove them, but hold them, either from pious and honest feeling (it may be), or from bigotry or from prejudice. That they are truths it is most difficult to prove, for great men alone can prove great ideas or grasp them. Such a mind was Hooker's, such Butler's; and, as moral evil triumphs over good on a small field of action, so in the argument of an hour or the compass of a volume would men like Brougham, or, again, Wesley, show to far greater advantage than Hooker or Butler. Moral truth is gained by patient study, by calm reflection, silently as the dew falls—unless miraculously given—and when gained it is transmitted by faith and by 'prejudice.' Keble's book is full of such truths, which any Cambridge man might refute with time greatest ease. TO HIS SISTER HARRIETT March 10, 1829. All these things being considered, I am clearly in principle an anti-Catholic; and, if I do not oppose the Emancipation, it is only because I do not think it expedient, perhaps possible, so to do. I do not look for the settlement of difficulties by the measure; they are rather begun by it, and will be settled with the downfall of the Established Church. If, then, I am for Emancipation, it is only that I may take my stand against the foes of the Church on better ground, instead of fighting at a disadvantage. That Emancipation is necessary now I think pretty clear, because the intelligence of the country will have it. Almost all who have weight by their talent or station prefer, of the alternatives left to us, concession, to an Irish war. But that the anti-Catholic party, who have by far the majority of number, should have been betrayed by its friends suddenly, craftily, and that the Government should have been bullied by Mr. O'Connell into concessions, is most deplorable. Perhaps there are circumstances in the background of which we know nothing. I have thought, perhaps, the Duke wants to have the energies of the country free and ready for a Russian war. I do not reckon Pusey or Denison among our opponents, because they were strong for concession beforehand; and Pusey, I know, thought most highly of Mr. Peel's integrity and generosity. REV. JOHN KEBLE TO REV. J. H. NEWMAN March 28, 1829. I do repent of some unkind thoughts and words which I fear I was guilty of at first towards Mr. Peel, and it is my expression of this feeling to one or two correspondents which, I presume, has won for me the most undeserved honour of being enrolled among the new converts ... On moral grounds, therefore, I am disposed to respect and admire him; but on political grounds I am more and more pleased that he was not elected. To say the truth, I never wish to see a Minister of State or leader of a party representing the University again. I had rather have a straightforward country gentleman. J. H. N. TO HIS MOTHER March 29, 1829. I must have tired you about the Catholic question. The Duke, even though right in his policy itself, seems to be acting quite unjustifiably in passing the measure against the loud and decided voice of the nation. However admirable it may be in a great captain, it is unworthy of an honest statesman. The people have been betrayed by those in whom they confided. The forced submission, too, of the Lords to the Commons is an alarming precedent. Mr. Newman has spoken in his Memoir of his relations with Dr. Lloyd. The reader will recall the description given of him in his lecture-room. The following letter shows how warm his feelings were towards him personally. TO HIS SISTER HARRIETT June 4, 1829. His death shocked me much; it must most men. Apparently in sound and robust health, with the certainty of the noblest preferment before him, probably the Archbishopric of York. No one could tell what his complaint was—he had a violent cough, which they thought the whooping-cough, and his lungs were found inflamed after death; but he also had a bilious fever for certain, and others speak of other complaints. He took so little care of his health by exercise, that I do not wonder at his constitution giving way when attacked suddenly and violently. I had the greatest esteem, respect, and love for him as a most warm-hearted, frank, vigorous-minded and generous man. His kindness for me I cannot soon forget. He brought me forward, made me known, spoke well of me, and gave me confidence in myself. I have before my mind various pictures of what passed in his lecture-room; how he used to fix his eyes on me when he was pleased, and never put his Ch. Ch. friends unduly forward. I wish he ever had been aware how much I felt his kindness. Oriel Fellows of mark of the third and fourth decade of this century have been made known to the reader through the portraiture of one of their number. It has startled the Editor to find the following sketch of the artist himself in the first promise and blossom of his youth. The reader will remember that Mr. Newman, in writing this letter, was addressing a late Fellow of Oriel. REV. J. H. NEWMAN TO REV. S. RICHARDS April 28, 1829. I am persuaded we have done what we ought to do. Mozley, if he turns out according to his present promise, will be one of the most surprising men we shall have numbered in our lists (ut apud Orielensem Orielensis de Orielensi aliquid jactem); it will be some time doubtless before he comes to maturity. He is not quick or brilliant, but deep, meditative, clear in thought, and imaginative. His [ethos] is admirable, and during his residence with us he has conducted himself unblamably; he is amiable and, withal, entertaining in parlance, and, to sum up all, somewhat eccentric at present in some of his notions. And now you will confess that I have given you a full description. His standing was quite a chance, and connected with some interesting circumstances too minute for a letter. The excitement of the election over, Mr. Newman returned with freshened appetite to the course of reading to which he had devoted himself. TO HIS SISTER HARRIETT June 25, 1829. On leaving Brighton, July 21, the family party settled for the Long Vacation at Horspath, Mr. Newman riding in to Oxford in the morning and returning to dinner. Both at Horspath and Oxford there was music. 'Woodgate's piano' was sent to Horspath. Quintets, in which Blanco White took a part, are often mentioned. 'Henry Wilberforce' had lodgings near, and read with Mr. Newman. 'S. Wilberforce' came over from Checkendon. It was an harmonious period, that might well live in the memory of all concerned in it, and perhaps raise gloomy contrasts as time went on. The first letter preserved from Newman to Hurrell Froude shows the interest of the two friends in the Tutorship, and the harmony of their opinions in the conduct of their office: {185} REV. J. H. NEWMAN TO REV. R. H. FROUDE August 15, 1829. Mozley [Note 14] just now made his appearance in my rooms, having arrived for a few weeks' hermitage here ... Dornford was, on the whole, I think, pleased with what he saw in Ireland, but did not see much, and was disappointed in the Irish character (its wit, I believe). I like what he says as far as it goes. He met some very clever Irish lads (Roman Catholics) who knew a great deal about their own tenets, and argued well. He seems to think a reformation to Protestantism quite chimerical, and likes the idea of a gradual improvement in the Roman Catholic system itself. This is Arnold's system too, bigot! And why it is not a good one I do not know. You prophesied ill of the weather, yet for enjoyment it has been excellently well adapted; except the last day or two: I sleep at Horspath, ride in here to breakfast, and ride back to dinner, and get wet through (yesterday, for instance) now and then. I am doing nothing, i.e. recovering arrears. I have been from four to six hours at it daily, and have not done. While I am about it I shall go through all my papers and letters, burn and arrange, and by the end of the vacation be quite comfortable; but as to the Fathers ne hilum quidem. {186} I must, in the course of time, give up the tuition and be a gentleman, or, rather, a Fellow. [N.B.—I meant (as I was wont to hold) that a Fellow ought not to be a mere tutor, but take a substantial place as a student, writer, &c.] REV. E. B. PUSEY, D.D., TO REV. J. H. NEWMAN 1829. The 'Morning Star' [his little child Lucy] longs to shine upon you, although her rays are sometimes, and not unfrequently, watery. REV. J. H. NEWMAN TO REV. R. H. FROUDE September 11, 1829. I wrote first to Robert Wilberforce, and since he on the whole declines, I write to you to know whether you feel at liberty to join me [in the care of my parish]; at least can you propose any one? … I mean ultimately to divide the duty of St. Mary's from Littlemore, and wish the person I gain to take Littlemore at once, having nothing to do with St. Mary's. This ensuing audit I shall begin my stir about a chapel, which, when (if) built, will be his. Till then I fear I must confess he will be {187} without public duty. As to the vacations, I do not suppose there will be much difficulty in arranging them. I would divide the residences with him. At least you can give your counsel. [N.B.—The Provost was to the last opposed to dividing off Littlemore as a separate cure from St. Mary's. Crawley alone, who settled at Littlemore, was able at length, about 1843, to persuade him. He went and had a talk with him, I prophesying that he would not succeed. As the building a chapel tended to the separation of the cure, as an almost necessary ultimate result, I think I am right in saying that the Provost always steadily threw cold water on the building. It was not begun till 1835.] I have been reading a good deal lately of the times of the first James and Charles, the Parliamentary debates of the day, &c., and am struck by the resemblance of those times and these—all times may be like all times for what I know. My home party at Horspath has been delighted with the place in spite of the weather, and my Mother is much better. I am dismayed at the decreasing limits of the vacation, though this is most ungracious, considering it is at least an accident of full term to bring the Tutors together. It is a shame to rail at Oxford as so many of us do. We have all sorts of comforts and advantages there, yet it is fashionable to abuse it in the abstract. I suppose Pusey's book will be out in the autumn [N.B. Answer to Rose]. His view of inspiration I think you will be much pleased with. It is one which has by fits and starts occurred to me. He has put it into system, and I do believe it is the old Orthodox doctrine. He holds the inspiration of the Church and of all good men, for example Socrates; and, indeed, I never could find out why Hooker is not to be called inspired. REV. R. H. FROUDE TO REV. J. H. NEWMAN Keswick: September 27, 1829. A propos of these last words, the following letter is given, written within the year 1829, but with no fuller date: REV. E. B. PUSEY TO REV. J. H. NEWMAN I do not know how to thank you for all the trouble which you have taken. I wish I could do justice to the subject ... The notices, however, will be useful to me. In Beveridge I have found something to my purpose, though he is higher Church than I. H. W. WILBERFORCE, ESQ., TO REV. J. H. NEWMAN [Writing from his brother's.] Checkendon: September 28, 1829. On October 23, Mrs. Newman and her daughters moved to Mr. Dornford's cottage at Nuneham. It was a dreary wintry time. Before Christmas, snow lay thick on the ground and frost made slippery paths. The change was great from Horspath. The added chill of solitude told on the elder sister, whose letters also indicate that she could not go along with her brother in his growth of view, and possibly had some mistrust of the new influence which was telling upon him. FROM HIS SISTER HARRIETT November 14. ... We have long since read your two sermons; they are {189} very High Church. I do not think I am near so High, and do not quite understand them yet. As secretary of the Church Missionary Society, to which office he had been elected March 9 of this year 1829, Mr. Newman's mind was much occupied with the system on which it was conducted. Early in the following year there are private entries on the subject, thus: 'Sketched letters about Church Missionary Society,' &c. The following letter, to the Rev. John Hill, Head of St. Edmund Hall, gives the first note of this dissatisfaction. REV. J. H. NEWMAN TO REV. JOHN HILL December 1829. I have written at once, since I am not certain it will be in my power to call on you tomorrow, and I am unwilling that you should not be informed of my feeling on the subject as soon as possible. REV. JOHN HILL, VICE-PRINCIPAL OF ST. EDMUND HALL, TO REV. J. H. NEWMAN December 12, 1829. It is true that one of the preachers employed some expressions in his sermon which the other considered to be not altogether correct, who therefore felt it right to allude to the subject in the afternoon. But while it is open to the friends of each to converse with them on the subject according to their own judgment, surely the committee or secretaries of the Society are not authorised to interfere, as those opinions had no reference to the Society, nor were adduced as the sentiments of the Society. As to myself, I would not, on any account, allow myself to become a party to any measure which might appear like a disclaimer against either of the individuals in question. I should, on the contrary, deem such a proceeding totally inconsistent with Christian candour and love. Both the men are devoted servants of Christ, and actuated in an eminent degree by love of God and man—as their whole conduct and spirit testify. Both are, as to the general character of their preaching, faithfully announcing the Gospel of Jesus Christ. With regard to the point of difference between them, I conceive (so far as I can judge from the reports I have received of their sermons, and from my previous knowledge of their sentiments) that Mr. Bulteel is most correct, because more clearly adhering to the spirit and language of Scripture; yet I entertain at the same time a very high regard for the piety and usefulness of Mr. Sibthorp; nor can I believe that the difference between them on the particular subject in question is so great as some casual expressions may have led some to suppose. Mr. Newman's further action towards the Missionary Society belongs to the following year, 1830, but it was one of the questions occupying his mind at this time, along with all the business his bursarship brought upon him at the close of the year. In all pecuniary matters involving responsibility Mr. Newman was rigidly exact—enforcing punctilious promptitude and accuracy on juniors working under him. That in his College office (as treasurer) he gave satisfaction may be gathered from the following playful recognition of his services. {191} REV. W. JAMES TO REV. J. H. NEWMAN December 3, 1829. With all these cares and duties on his hands, the last words of the year show a sense of pressure. J. H. N. TO H. E. N. Oriel College: December 31, 1829. The Christmas vacation was mainly spent at Nuneham with his Mother and sisters, Mr. Newman walking from and to Oxford day after day. Top | Contents | Biographies | Home Notes1. Lately settled at Eastern Terrace, Brighton. 2. Mr. Rickards gave
characters from handwritings. It was an especial favour reserved for
intimate friends for him to do this in the presence of others. 3. The above letter
from Mr. Newman to Mr. Keble will help to clear away the difficulties
that have arisen as to Mr. Newman's part in the election, which are
noticed in Dean Burgon's Twelve Good Men. The following letter
from Dr. Pusey is here given; it was written on the same sheet of paper
with that of Mr. Newman:—'My dear Keble,—N. having spared me a small
space in his letter, which was written in consequence of seeing your
kind answer to mine, I am very glad to be able to express my sincere
gratitude for that kindness. I knew that whatever was done honestly
would meet with your approbation; but it is a satisfaction to have that
expressed in such a manner. I suppressed much in my last letter that I
would willingly have said, but dreaded its, at the moment, appearing
insincere; but I now find that it would probably give you less pain not
to be the object of the choice of the Fellows than it will, I expect, be
to me to vote otherwise than for you.—Affectionately yours, E. B. PUSEY.' 4. This lady,
sister-in-law of the Rev. Walter Mayer, has been described in Reminiscences
of Oriel. She died at Autun, Dec. 2, 1885 in the Convent of the
Order of Visitation. 5. See Parochial
Sermons, vol. vii. p. 4, 'The Lapse of Time.' 6. Rev. Walter
Mayer's funeral sermon. 7. The members were:
1, R. H. Froude; 2, H. I. Wilberforce; 3, J. H. Newman; 4, J. Bramston;
5, Rickards; 6, Round. 8. In its monthly
form. 9. 'Infames scopulos
Acroceraunia,' Hor. Od. I. iii. 20. 10. The following is extracted from 'Note on Essay I,' in Essays Critical and Historical, vol. i. p. 27:— '‘The time was favourable for a new Quarterly, so far as
this, that the long-established Quarterly was in the crisis of a
change of editors. In fact, its publisher entered into correspondence
with Mr. White with a view to an arrangement which would supersede the
projected Review … the new publication required an editor of more
vigorous health and enterprising mind, of more cheerful spirits and
greater powers of working, and with larger knowledge of the English
public than Mr. White possessed; and writers less bookish and academical
than those, able as they were, on whom its fate depended. Southey, by
anticipation, hit the blot. As a whole, the Review was dull.' 11. This date
given, but with a doubt expressed as to exact correctness. 12. See
Letter on p. 165. 13. That Sunday was
the Fifth Sunday after Epiphany. Therefore by the Old Lectionary the
evening first lesson was the 64th of Isaiah. 14. Thomas Mozley,
elected Fellow of Oriel April 1829. 15. By Bulteel and
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