Overview

John Henry Newman (1801-90) was brought up in the Church of England in the Evangelical tradition. An Oxford graduate and Fellow of Oriel College, he was appointed Vicar of St Mary's Oxford in 1828; from 1839 onwards he began to have doubts about the claims of the Anglican Church for Catholicity and in 1845 he was received into the Roman Catholic Church. He was made a Cardinal in 1879. His influence on both the restoration of Roman Catholicism in England and the advance of Catholic ideas in the Church of England was profound. Volume XXXII contains a further 513 letters which have surfaced since the publication of the preceding volumes, spanning the years 1830 until virtually the eve of Newman's death on 11 August 1890. There are, for example, thirty-four letters to Thomas Arnold junior following his conversion to Roman Catholicism on 18 January 1856 in Van Diemen's Land and his subsequent return to England with his wife and family; seven letters to Charles Marriott and seven letters from him dealing mainly with the sale of the Littlemore property following Newman's secession to Rome on 9 October 1845; and eighteen letters to various members of the Mozley family, including two letters to Jemima in the wake of the Achilli trial in 1853.Other recipients include the Duke of Norfolk and his family; Charles Wellington Furse, Principal of Ripon College, Cuddesdon, near Oxford, and future Archdeacon of Westminster; and Miss Maria Trench, who was preparing some of Keble's papers and reviews for publication. There are also two letters to Pope Leo XIII petitioning him for the canonization of John Fisher, Thomas More, and the English Martyrs.

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Author:   Francis J. McGrath, FMS (Editor of the Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman, Editor of the Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman, Birmingham Oratory) ,  Francis J. McGrath, FMS
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 4.30cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   1.268kg
ISBN:  

9780199532704

ISBN 10:   0199532702
Pages:   748
Publication Date:   09 October 2008
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Leporello (folded)
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Table of Contents

Introductory Note THE LETTERS OF JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Appendix 1: Personal reminiscences of Canon Frederick Oakeley about: (1) John Henry Newman's final months as an Anglican at Littlemore; (2) his conversion to Roman Catholicism on the night of 9 October 1845; and (3) his subsequent movements following that conversion Appendix 2: Editorial appraisal of the verdict handed down by the jury against Newman in the Achilli trial, as published in the London Times on Saturday 26 June 1852 Appendix 3: Dublin Review article on the initial publication of the Apologia pro Vitâ Suâ, July 1864 Appendix 4: . Dublin Review article on the initial publication of the 1868 edition of Parochial and Plain Sermons, April 1869 Appendix 5: Dublin Review article on the initial publication of An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, April 1871 Appendix 6: Personal reminiscences of Canon Charles Wellington Furse about John Henry Newman Appendix 7: Two reports from The Times Weekly Edition, both of which were published on Friday 16 May 1879, on: (1) the secret Consistory attended by Newman in the presence of Pope Leo XIII on the morning of Monday 12 May 1879; and (2) Newman's visit to the English College later that morning Appendix 8: Dublin Review article on the recently published sixth volume of the Lives of the Cardinals by Patrick Justin O'Byrne, July 1879 Appendix 9: Contemporary newspaper articles on the death of John Henry Cardinal Newman which occurred at the Birmingham Oratory on the evening of Monday 11 August 1890 Appendix 10: 'Sermon preached at the funeral of His Eminence John Henry Newman Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church by William Clifford Bishop of Clifton', Tuesday 19 August 1890 Appendix 11: Local newspaper account of: (1) the funeral service of Cardinal Newman at the Parish Church of the Immaculate Conception, Birmingham Oratory, Hagley Road, Edgbaston; (2) of the funeral cortège to Rednal; and (3) of his interment as reported in The Birmingham Daily Post the day following these events, Wednesday 20 August 1890 Appendix 12: . The Anne Mozley account of: (1) the Dirge service at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Hagley Road, Edgbaston, the evening before Newman's funeral; (2) the funeral itself the following day; and (3) the interment at Rednal

Reviews

This will complete a magnificient series which in its extent and scholarship will stand comparison with any edition of the correspondence of any other great English writer... Every letter that Newman produced is beautifully written, even if it is only a thank you note for a brace of pheasants, or a warning to a correspondent to beaware of the damp sheets in a friend's house. Anthony Kenny, Times Literary Supplement This volume is as indispensable as its predecessors for all serious scholars of Newman and the contemporaries with whom he engaged. It will also be of interest and delight to the wider circle of his admirers. Pluscardens Benedictines

In common with the earlier volumes he has edited Francis McGrath has researched names, places, books, and allusions with exemplary detail ... Editor and publisher are again to be congratulated on the extraordinarily high standard achieved. When next year (2010) volume 33 is published, containing the general index to the whole of the Letters and Diaries, this great project will have been brought to a triumphant and fitting conclusion. * Geoffrey Rowell, Journal of Theological Studies * This volume is as indispensable as its predecessors for all serious scholars of Newman and the contemporaries with whom he engaged. It will also be of interest and delight to the wider circle of his admirers. * Pluscardens Benedictines * This will complete a magnificient series which in its extent and scholarship will stand comparison with any edition of the correspondence of any other great English writer... Every letter that Newman produced is beautifully written, even if it is only a thank you note for a brace of pheasants, or a warning to a correspondent to beaware of the damp sheets in a friend's house. * Anthony Kenny, Times Literary Supplement *

`Review from previous edition It is a massive, superbly edited collection, one that impressively reveals the range and continuity of Newman's correspondence. ' Thought `The Letters themselves will never be superseded as biography and portrait. It is wonderful to live with Newman day by day and almost hour by hour. The character there revealed is so consistent, the words so inevitable, the narrative so vivid, there is no greyness as of printed pages but everywhere life and colour. ' The Heythrop Journal

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Appointed the editor of Newman's Letters and Diaries in January 2003, following the sudden death of the previous editor, Gerard Tracey, Francis McGrath is an Australian Marist Brother and was the first Australian to complete doctoral work in Newman studies at Oxford. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he undertook postgraduate studies at Boston College, Massachusetts. Recent work in Australia has included writing and coordinating three nationwide distance theological education programmes.

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