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JOHN H. CARDINAL NEWMAN

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JOHN H. CARDINAL NEWMAN
<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>JOHN H. CARDINAL NEWMAN </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'>(1801-1890). English cleric and theologian; leader of the Oxford movement which sought a closer link between the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches. Composer of famous hymn, “Lead, Kindly Light.” ALS, 2pp, 12mo, The Oratory, Dec 13, 1878. Unnamed recipient. In full, “I was very much shocked at the announcement in the Times [copy present]. I had heard no rumour of it before. Mr. Law I do not know personally, even by sight; but I have before now had occasion to write to him, as a learned man, and received a courteous and valuable answer. I founded the London Oratory in 1848, and I know some of its present members - but it is quite independent of me, and I have had no more to do with it for the last 23 years than with the corporation of Liverpool or the Privy Council...” Mounting traces on verso of integral leaf; 1” separation along fold with no paper loss; else Fine. Newman refers to a brief notice in the Times of Dec 10, 1878, referencing the secession of the Rev. Thomas Graves Law (1836-1904), an “esteemed and scholarly father of the Brompton Oratory” from the Roman Catholic Church. According to the DNB, Law left the Church “owing to the loss of his faith in the teaching of the church, he definitively left its communion.”</span></p>