Les lettres de Newman

The collection of John Henry Newman’s letters is now complete. It has taken the Birmingham Oratory almost fifty years and seven editors to complete a task that Newman himself had started as early as 1825 and that his friends and/or biographers had attempted at different times.This collection — « the finest collection (of letters) in the English language » — comprises about 20,000 letters in 32 volumes, making it necessary for the average reader to refer to selections ; two have been published in the last fifty years and the more recent one, translated under the aegis of the Association Francaise des Amis de Newman, was published for the centenary of Newman’s death that the French public may get to know the person of the cardinal in the context of the time.