“My dear Milman,—Your
note gives me an anxious and earnest hope that you mean to do Newman, and I am certain you, and only you,
could do him in a way that
would be satisfactory to the sane and superior mind of the country. I may not
be able to have a talk with you to-morrow on such matters, therefore I say now,
that if you undertake the thing, I shall feel at ease; and if you don’t,
I know I shall have much trouble with Gladstone,
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“If you do this now, and rightly, you will carry on and complete the very salutary impression made by the paper on Michelet—which I think you ought now to acknowledge generally. I hear it is commonly given to Dr. Turton. I think I wrote you so. They had traced it to the Abbey. I think it very likely—there not being time now for much politics, and it being on the cards that we may find either another Conservative Government contracted, or a Radicalised Whig one in power by the time Parliament meets—that we may be forced to publish a number in February, for the purpose of taking ground decidedly and deliberately. I have promised, however, to set about the miscellaneous two hundred pages of the spring number forthwith, so as to be quite ready in case there should be a call of this nature on the Quarterly Review.—Ever yours affectionately,
