The Correspondence of Henry Edward Manning and William Ewart Gladstone - The Complete Correspondence 1833-1891

Spanning six decades from 1833-1891, the correspondence of Henry Edward Manning and William Ewart Gladstone provides significant insights into debates on Church-State realignments, the entanglements of Anglican Old High Churchmen and Tractarians, and the relationships between Roman Catholics and the British Government.

Between 1833 and 1891 Henry Edward Manning (1808-1892) and William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) maintained a correspondence, broken only for a decade from 1851-1861and from 1875-1882. Tracing as it does the shifting relationships between two such major figures over the greater part of the nineteenth century, the collection provides substantial insights into debates on Church-State realignments in the 1830s and 1840s, the entanglements of Anglican Old High Churchmen and Tractarians
from the early years of the Oxford Movement to 1851, and the relationships between Roman Catholics and the British Government over Italian, Irish, educational, and other political and religious issues in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
The first and second volumes include the greater part of the correspondence, composed while the two men were close friends, prior to Manning's entrance into the Roman Catholic Church in April 1851 and Gladstone's shift from the Conservative to the Liberal party at approximately the same time. The third and fourth volumes of the edition comprise their letters from the post-1861 period, Manning then serving as a Roman Catholic priest and Archbishop of Westminster, and Gladstone as Chancellor
of the Exchequer, leader of the Liberal opposition, and three terms as Liberal Prime Minister (his fourth following Manning's death). The fourth volume includes an appendix of materials marking their public debate initiated in late 1874 by Gladstone's charge that with the formal declaration of papal
infallibility in 1870 Roman Catholics were required to renounce their "moral and mental freedom."

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From the contents:

Volume One: 1833-1844
Section One: Initial Contacts: 1833-1836
Section Two: Preludes to Power
Section Three: The Strain of Tractarian Ideals
Section Four: Confronting the Romewards Movement

Volume Two, 1844-1853
Section Five: The Implications of Catholic Concerns
Section Six: Readjustments and Revisions
Section Seven: Charting New Directions
Section Eight: The Gorham Crisis
Section Nine: Epilogue: June, 1851 - August, 1853

Volume Three, 1861-1875
Introduction to Volumes Three and Four
Section Ten: Re acquaintance and Realignment
Section Eleven: Archbishop and Prime Minister

Volume Four, 1882-1891
Section Twelve: The Final Decade
Appendix: Gladstone and Manning - The Vaticanism Tracts and Controversy

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