The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman

Appointed the editor of Newman's Letters and Diaries in January 2003, following the sudden death of the previous editor, Gerard Tracey, Francis McGrath is an Australian Marist Brother and was the first Australian to complete doctoral work in Newman studies at Oxford. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he undertook postgraduate studies at Boston College, Massachusetts. Recent work in Australia has included writing and coordinating three nationwide distance theological education programmes.

This will complete a magnificient series which in its extent and scholarship will stand comparison with any edition of the correspondence of any other great English writer... Every letter that Newman produced is beautifully written, even if it is only a thank you note for a brace of pheasants, or a warning to a correspondent to beaware of the damp sheets in a friend's house.

• Introductory Note ; THE LETTERS OF JOHN HENRY NEWMAN ; Appendix 1 Personal reminiscences of Canon Frederick Oakeley about: (1) John Henry Newman's final months as an Anglican at Littlemore; (2) his conversion to Roman Catholicism on the night of 9 October 1845; and (3) his subsequent movements following that conversion ; Appendix 2 Editorial appraisal of the verdict handed down by the jury against Newman in the Achilli trial, as published in the London Times on Saturday 26 June 1852 ; Appendix 3 Dublin Review article on the initial publication of the Apologia pro Vita Sua, July 1864 ; Appendix 4 . Dublin Review article on the initial publication of the 1868 edition of Parochial and Plain Sermons, April 1869 ; Appendix 5 Dublin Review article on the initial publication of An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, April 1871 ; Appendix 6 Personal reminiscences of Canon Charles Wellington Furse about John Henry Newman ; Appendix 7 Two reports from The Times Weekly Edition, both of which were published on Friday 16 May 1879, on: (1) the secret Consistory attended by Newman in the presence of Pope Leo XIII on the morning of Monday 12 May 1879; and (2) Newman's visit to the English College later that morning ; Appendix 8 Dublin Review article on the recently published sixth volume of the Lives of the Cardinals by Patrick Justin O'Byrne, July 1879 ; Appendix 9 Contemporary newspaper articles on the death of John Henry Cardinal Newman which occurred at the Birmingham Oratory on the evening of Monday 11 August 1890 ; Appendix 10 'Sermon preached at the funeral of His Eminence John Henry Newman Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church by William Clifford Bishop of Clifton', Tuesday 19 August 1890 ; Appendix 11 Local newspaper account of: (1) the funeral service of Cardinal Newman at the Parish Church of the Immaculate Conception, Birmingham Oratory, Hagley Road, Edgbaston; (2) of the funeral cortege to Rednal; and (3) of his interment as reported in The Birmingham Daily Post the day following these events, Wednesday 20 August 1890 ; Appendix 12 . The Anne Mozley account of: (1) the Dirge service at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Hagley Road, Edgbaston, the evening before Newman's funeral; (2) the funeral itself the following day; and (3) the interment at Rednal