“My dear Milman,—I
thank you for your letter, and will meditate on the subject thereof; but I do
not believe I shall be able to make up my mind to ask any one to do a paper on
Newman, unless you should yourself
encourage me to ask you. I think the tone of your last article perfect, and so
I fancy all its readers (sane readers) have done; excepting, of course, the
Morning
Post, who considers it a bit of Hoadleyism—Croker, who suspects it of being Ward’s post-nuptial
statement—and Palgrave, who says
he is utterly puzzled to make out the
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“I leave this place to-morrow—hope to be in London this day fortnight, and to see you there then, or speedily afterwards. Meantime pray consider what a great service you might do, not to the Quarterly Review merely, but to the Church and the country, by devoting some leisure to the working out of your own sage suggestions. Two or three such articles as the last would really rally round your name a very great body of via media people! I wonder you are not already a bishop, but hope and trust I shall see you one in three or four years.—I salute my godchild, and remain, ever affectionately yours,
