CARDINAL NEWMWN AND THACKERAY.

Press, Volume XLVII, Issue 7731, 10 December 1890, Page 5

CARDINAL NEWMWN AND THACKERAY.

An interestins: unpublished autograph letter ol f the,late Cardinal Newman <the te_£of whom we. print below) wa» exhibited at the Roman .Catholic, bazaar held iv Manchester- recently-, and; attracted considerable Attention.,-, This letfer* toge* 1 ther with other, interesting autographs, including a verse of $he hymn, "Lead, Kindly Light,"' in the Cardinal's autograph, was lent i>y Ivlr Waithman C&ddell. from his collection ot autograph letters:—. "She Oratory, Birmingham. December 27tb,186& MyJ dear Miss Holmes,— My best Christmas greetings to you, and to Mr and Mrs Legh. But I do not write to say what . you will believe I feel, though I dp not say it, bat to express the Sierclng sorrow that I feel at Thackeray's eath. Ton know I never saw him, but you have interested mc in him—and one saw in his books the workings of his mind —and he has died with such awful, suddenness. A new work of his had been, advertised, and I nad looked forward with pleasure to reading it, and now the drama of his life is closed, and he himself is the greatest instance of tbe text- qt which he was' so full—Vanitas. yandtatum,, omnia vahitas.,, I wonder whetber.he -isknowja his own doea>--_or tho**, ..SIM .■:•■: . K.« {"

l-Mbeeiu I thought hislaifenovelbetrated lassitude and exhaustion o£ in Lad, twad-hc bai lain by. apparently for .a lyear* Hia last (fugitive) pieces in the CornJM have been almost sermons. One should be verl glad, to know that ho bfca bad pi *■ sentiments of what was to come. What a world this is; how wretched they are who take it for their portion I Poor Thackeray—it seems but the sother day since We became Oathollos-now all lua renown has been since that, ho has ma-di his name, has been made much of, h#>« been feted.and has gone out, all since 18.8 or 1847, all since I went to Prop** ganda and came back a Phllipplan.—Evor yours affectionately, Joan 11. Nbwman, of the Oratory.**