OF JOHN HENRY NEWMAN DURING HIS LIFE IN THE ENGLISH CHURCH WITH A BRIEF AUTOBIOGRAPHY EDITED, AT CARDINAL NEWMAN'S REQUEST, BY ANNE MOZLEY EDITOR OF LETTERS OF THE REV. J. B. MOZLEY, D.D. IN TWO VOLUMES-VOL. II. LONDON LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. AND NEW YORK: 15 EAST 16th STREET 1891 All rights reserved LETTERS AND CORRESPONDENCE BX 4705 v. 2 IN carrying on the correspondence of Mr. Newman and his friends to a second volume, it may be well to remind the reader of the progress the Movement had already made by a few dates. July 9, 1833, Mr. Newman arrived at his Mother's house at Iffley, after his illness in Sicily. July 14, Mr. Keble preached his celebrated Assize sermon on National Apostasy, which Mr. Newman ever considered the beginning of the Movement." July 25, meeting of Churchmen at Mr. Rose's, at Hadleigh. Early in September the first tracts were published. The reader will see that by the middle of December the number of tracts and records of the Church had together reached in all to twenty-eight. A letter of James Mozley, dated September 3, 1833, says, 'With this letter you will receive a considerable number of tracts, the first production of the Society established for the dissemination of High Church principles. . . . Newman is the writer of all the tracts I send you-Keble has written two, but they are not printed.' VOL. II. 044 B REV. J. H. NEWMAN TO REV. HUGH JAMES ROSE. [Whether this was sent I know not. Most probably; at least in substance. It is transcribed here as recording the feelings, &c., of the writer at the time. As to Rose's letters, after his death I was asked for them all, that John Miller might have them, as he was to draw up a memoir of Rose, which, as far as I know, never appeared. I was most unwilling to give them up. Pusey forcibly persuaded me. I ought to have asked for my own addressed to him instead.—J. H. N.] Your letter cheered me very much; for, as Froude is away, I have no one on the spot whom I can get advice from, in spite of the many good friends I have around, for which I ought to be very grateful. Indeed I trust the right cause is making progress here [Oxford]. Thank you for the kind things you have said of me both in your Magazine and by letter. I now write to you, after some talk with Keble, to acquaint you how we stand, and to enable you to keep our movements clear of your own. Turrill [Smith] wants us to form our tracts into a periodical. I am against anything like a tractmagazine on a ground which I think you have pointed out yourself. It is highly desirable that each tract should be separate; we do not want regular troops, but sharpshooters. However, to make the issue periodically, e.g. monthly, might be a good thing, as leading persons to look for them. The Record' and (I am told) the 'Christian Observer' have advertised them for us in their own way, and we are going to advertise them in consequence for ourselves. . . . The trouble of making up parcels is already very great. Our only fear is that of involving ourselves in expenses which we cannot estimate. Smith says we must have 2,500 copies struck off of each tract, which would be, I suppose, 127. a sheet, and it is a speculation how long this outlay would be going on before the sale would be equal to it. This is one cause of hesitation. Another is lest we should be engaging in an employment which would take up all our time. But this is, perhaps, a needless alarm; we do not pledge ourselves to continue it. |