'WITH THE KINDEST WISHES AND PRAYERS OF THE AUTHOR...' A Letter to the Rev Pusey & 8 other Publications by Saint John Henry Newman, William Gladstone, Gilbert Scott, Thomas Capel - 1866

London: Longmans etc, 1866. Inscribed with 'Prayers' from a saint - John Henry Newman's Letter to Pusey inscribed in his hand on the verso of the title page: 'with the kindest wishes & prayers of the Author Decr 10. 1872'. Collection of 9 Anglo-Catholic church pamphlets bound in contemporary half calf with marbled boards, spine label lettered in gilt on maroon leather, some rubbing to the leather. Light brown coated endpapers with the ownership inscription of 'Isabel J Crewe 1878' (possibly the long-lived daughter - 1830-1929 - of Sir George Crewe, 8th Baronet and owner of Calke Abbey in Derbyshire). Newman's Letter is the first item in the collection, some brown spotting to text and inscribed by the future Saint some 6 years after the 160 page work's publication. The second work by Newman appears penultimate in the collection: A Letter Addressed to His Grace the Duke of Norfolk, on Occasion of Mr Gladstone's Recent Expostulation. B.M. and was Newman's final published work. It bears interrogative pencil annotations in the hand of Isabel Crewe offering frequent question marks and exclamation marks and occasional marginal comments and questions. So at page 107, responding to Newman's discussion of Papal infallibility she notes 'So according to this a Pope may teach & spread heresy...' Following the letter to Pusey the volume runs as follows: Wood (Charles L., Hon.) Substance of an Address delivered [...] at the Annual Meeting of the English Church Union, held at Freemasons' Tavern, on June 14, 1877, English Church Union Office, [1877,] pp. 7, [1,ad] Capel ([Thomas John], Monsignor) The Reply of a Ritualist to a Letter Addressed to him by Two Roman Catholics in Defence of Monsignor Capel. G.J. Palmer, 1872, pp. 19 Scott (Gilbert) Restoration of St. Alban's Abbey. Report. Printed by R. Clay, Sons and Taylor, n.d. [circa 1871,] pp. 19 Wood (Charles L., Hon.) Substance of an Address delivered [...] at the Ordinary Meeting of the English Church Union, held at Freemasons' Tavern, on February 27, 1877, English Church Union Office, [1877,] pp. 17, [3, ads] 'Presbyter Anglicanus' [i.e. Joseph Hemington Harris] Christianity or Erastianism? A Letter Addressed, by Permission, to His Eminence Cardinal Manning, Archbishop of Westminster. John H. Batty, 1876, pp. 36 Gladstone (W.E., Right Hon.) The Vatican Decrees in their Bearing on Civil Allegiance: A Political Expostulation. Second Thousand. John Murray, 1874, pp. 72 Newman (John Henry [later Cardinal, now Saint]) A Letter Addressed to His Grace the Duke of Norfolk, on Occasion of Mr Gladstone's Recent Expostulation. B.M. Pickering, 1875, pp. 131 (Blehl A42a) Gladstone (W.E., Right Hon.) Bulgarian Horrors and the Question of the East. John Murray, 1876 Newman's two publications are much the most substantial contributions to this volume. His letter was a reply to Pusey's 'Eirenicon' in 1865, which had answered Cardinal Manning's pamphlet of 1864 that implicitly criticised his Apologia. The Letter to the Duke of Norfolk is Newman's last book and a response to Gladstone's declaration, in the 'expostulation' that no Englishman could give allegiance to Rome without 'renouncing his moral or mental freedom'. Inscribed by Saint Newman Newman (John Henry [later Cardinal, now Saint]) A Letter to the Rev. E.B. Pusey, D.D., on his recent Eirenicon. Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1866, FIRST EDITION, some light foxing pp. 159, 8vo [Bound with:] Wood (Charles L., Hon.) Substance of an Address delivered [...] at the Annual Meeting of the English Church Union, held at Freemasons' Tavern, on June 14, 1877, English Church Union Office, [1877,] pp. 7, [1, ad] [And:] Capel ([Thomas John], Monsignor) The Reply of a Ritualist to a Letter Addressed to him by Two Roman Catholics in Defence of Monsignor Capel. G.J. Palmer, 1872, pp. 19 [And:] Scott (Gilbert) Restoration of St. Alban's Abbey. Report. Printed by R. Clay, Sons and Taylor, n.d. [circa 1871,] pp. 19 [And:] Wood (Charles L., Hon.) Substance of an Address delivered [...] at the Ordinary Meeting of the English Church Union, held at Freemasons' Tavern, on February 27, 1877, English Church Union Office, [1877,] pp. 17, [3, ads] [And:] 'Presbyter Anglicanus' [i.e. Joseph Hemington Harris] Christianity or Erastianism? A Letter Addressed, by Permission, to His Eminence Cardinal Manning, Archbishop of Westminster. John H. Batty, 1876, pp. 36 [And:] Gladstone (W.E., Right Hon.) The Vatican Decrees in their Bearing on Civil Allegiance: A Political Expostulation. Second Thousand. John Murray, 1874, pp. 72 [And:] Newman (John Henry [later Cardinal, now Saint]) A Letter Addressed to His Grace the Duke of Norfolk, on Occasion of Mr Gladstone's Recent Expostulation. B.M. Pickering, 1875, pp. 131, some pencil notes to margins (Blehl A42a) [And:] Gladstone (W.E., Right Hon.) Bulgarian Horrors and the Question of the East. John Murray, 18contemporary half calf with marbled boards, backstrip lettered in gilt on maroon leather label, decorations stamped in black, a little wear, conte76, pp. 64 mporary ownership inscription to flyleaf, good £650 Inscribed by Saint John Henry Newman. A sammelband of Church pamphlets, of which the most important and substantial are the two Letters by Newman, to E.B. Pusey and the Duke of Norfolk respectively. The first of these tracts is inscribed by John Henry Newman to the verso of the title-page: 'With the kindest wishes and prayers of the author, Decr 10. 1872'. This letter, a reply to Pusey's 'Eirenicon' in 1865, itself in answer to a Cardinal Manning pamphlet of 1864 (ostensibly attacking Pusey but also implicitly criticizing the Apologia) is a 'controversial work [...]While complaining about the contradiction between Pusey's professed desire for Christian unity and his provocative citation of extreme Marian devotions in the Roman Catholic church as though they were obligatory or typical, Newman took the opportunity to dissociate himself from the devotionalism of Faber as well as the ultramontanism of converts such as Manning [...] and W. G. Ward' (ODNB). The Letter to the Duke of Norfolk is Newman's last book and a response to Gladstone's declaration, in the 'expostulation' preceding Newman's retort here, that no Englishman could pledge allegiance to Rome without 'renouncing his moral or mental freedom'. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item 1866