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1 Notes to this work are given as simple page-references.
2 Pp. 326–8.
3 E.g. pp. 70–1, 250, 261, 323–4, 400–1, 524–5.
4 P. 125.
5 P. 326.
6 See especially pp. 9 and 265 for examples.
7 Pp. 35, 117, 275 for glaring instances.
8 E.g. pp. 35, 265.
9 E.g. p. 29 for a particularly bad case.
10 Pp. 282, 324 and 452, 241 and 318, 107 and 267, 53 and 71 n. 1.
11 Pp. 517 and 521.
12 Pp. 155 and 231, 114 and 265, 453 and 470.
13 Sir Arthur Quiller Couch, On the Art of Writing (Cambridge, 1950 edition), 68.
14 E.g. 125, 131, 132, 262, 387, 407, 409, 475.
15 P. 6.
16 Charles, Smyth, Simeon and Church Order (Cambridge, 1940), 269.Google Scholar
17 Forster, E. M., Marianne Thornton, A Domestic Biography (London, 1956), 42.Google Scholar
18 Pp. 66, 68.
19 Pp. 292–4.
20 P. 229.
21 P. 457.
22 Charles Smyth, op. cit. 312.
23 E.g. for Samuel Wilberforce, see Henfield MSS. Sargent Bundle, no. 13 and no. 15; for Robert, see Kensington MSS. K. 15 (Robert's account of the death of his first wife Agnes). See also the same collection A. 3 for a description by Newman of the death of his sister Mary.
24 Purcell, E. S., Life of Cardinal Manning (London, 1896), I, 7.Google Scholar
25 Liddon, H. P., Life of E. B. Pusey (London, 1894), 1, 3–4. Cf. Mr Brown (p. 353 n. 1) where he qualifies his remarks on pp. 88, 236–8.Google Scholar
26 P. 54.
27 , R. I. and Wilberforce, S., Life of William Wilberforce (London, 1838), I, 9.Google Scholar
28 Ibid, iv, 290.
29 See the discussion of this in Charles, Smyth, The Church and the Nation (London, 1962), 150–1.Google Scholar
30 See pp. 372–83.
31 Halévy, E., The Age of Peel and Cobden, A History of the English People 1841–1852 (London, 1947), 301.Google Scholar
32 P. 6.
33 P. 73 n. 1.
34 Pp. 6, 489–506.
35 Pp. 71, 286–7.
36 P. 223.
37 P. 500.
38 P.496
39 Pp. 296, 492–3.
40 P. 493.
41 P 491.
42 Pp. 487–8.
43 Pp. 514–15.
44 P. 489. Mr Brown appears to contradict himself here. His claim is that the sons were interested in suppressing the Evangelicalism of their father. Yet he appears to be saying here that Samuel wished to demonstrate his own Evangelical sympathies so that.he might obtain preferment.
45 Coupland, R., Wilberforce. A Narrative (Oxford, 1923), v. Cf. Mr Brown on p. 491 n. 2.Google Scholar
46 Wrangham MSS., box 5, no. 181.
47 Wrangham MSS., box 7, no. 89.
48 Wrangham MSS., box 5, no. 185.
49 Wrangham MSS., box 7, no. 85.
50 P. 514. Cf. E. M. Forster, op. cit. 139.
51 E.g. pp. 37, 58, 194, 224–5, 245, 286–7, 303–4, 387.
52 E.g. pp. 194, 245.
53 P 492.
54 P. 497 n. 2.
55 E.g. Wrangham MSS., box 5, no. 83. Samuel to Robert, 26 November 1833: ‘Poor Carr—He is a good fellow and one I love, and a truly religious—but oh how vanity sticks to a man.’ See also Robert to Samuel in box 7, no. 54 (2 July 1836), where he talks of Jebb being ‘first made serious by reading my father's book’. See also R.I. and S. Wilberforce, Life of William Wilberforce, 11, 309; v, 281.
56 P. 499.
57 Pp 501–2.
58 Pp. 500–1, 505–6.
59 Public Collections: Wilberforce Museum, Hull, for some of William's diaries and letters; Bodleian Library, Oxford, for a very large collection of Samuel's papers, mainly relating to his public career and diocesan affairs. See also British Museum, Egerton MSS.
Private Collections: Wrangham MSS. (property of Mr C. E. Wrangham, Rosemary House, Catterick) include a large number of William's diaries and religious journals, many of William's letters and the large correspondence which passed between Samuel and Robert. Henfield MSS. (property of Dr Octavia Wilberforce, Backsettown Farmstead, Henfield, who donated the Bodleian papers) include many family papers and William's letters to Samuel. There are smaller collections in the hands of Miss Irene Wilberforce, York House, Church St, Kensington (Kensington MSS.—mainly Robert's papers), and Mrs Sandwith, St Mark's Vicarage, Harrogate, who possesses letters of William Wilberforce (junior) and Henry Wilberforce. Samuel's letters to Newman are at the Birmingham Oratory, Robert's letters to Manning are at St Mary of the Angels, Bayswater. Henry Wilberforce's papers are mostly at Ushaw College, Durham.
60 Pp. 489–90.
61 Henfield MSS. Notebook entitled ‘Samuel Wilberforce MSS. Fragments of his Father's Conversation 1823’ (referred to subsequently as ‘Fragments’); and Wrangham MSS., the large album entitled ‘Private. Robert Wilberforce’.
62 Wrangham MSS., box 5, nos. 112, 140, 158.
63 Wrangham MSS., box 7, no. 42.
64 Wrangham MSS., box 7, no. 64.
65 Compare pp. 6 and 403.
66 E.g. Henfield MSS., bundle entitled ‘James Stephen and Samuel Wilberforce’; Wrangham MSS., box 5, nos. 64, 71.
67 James, Stephen, Essays in Ecclesiastical Biography (London, 1907), ii, 186.Google Scholar
68 Maitland, F. W., Life and Letters of Leslie Stephen (London, 1906), 17.Google Scholar
69 Birmingham Oratory, Newman Papers, box 119, 5 March 1835.
70 Henfield MSS., Robert Wilberforce to Samuel, no. 10.
71 Wrangham MSS., box 5, no. 126; also no. 127.
72 Redford, G. and James, J. A., The Autobiography of the Rev. William Jay (London, 2nd edition, 1855), 307.Google Scholar
73 Wrangham MSS., box 5, no. 149.
74 R. I. and S. Wilberforce, Life, 1, 12.
75 Wrangham MSS., box 7, no. 71.
76 Wrangham MSS., box 5, no. 151.
77 Wrangham MSS., box 7, no. 81.
78 Wrangham MSS., box 5, no. 174.
79 Henfield MSS., Robert Wilberforce to Samuel, no. 26.
80 Wrangham MSS., box 7, no. 47.
81 James Stephen, op. cit. II, 186.
82 Wrangham MSS., box 5. Emily Wilberforce to Henry, 29 May 1831, with P.S. by Samuel: ‘Mr Sargent speaks of my father's losses as £65,000.’ Cf. Mr Brown on p. 410 where he suggests that the loss was small.
83 Wilberforce Diary (Hull), 15 March 1819: ‘A letter from H. Venn to-day strongly of opinion poor William should be taken from College. I fear rightly. …’ See also 28 March 1819.
84 R. I. and S. Wilberforce, Life, I, 11, 176, 223.
85 Diary (Hull), 16 March 1817; British Museum, Egerton MSS., 1964, 31 July 1817 (letter to Lady Sparrow). I am grateful to Professor Robert W. Smith of the University of Oregon for this last reference and to the passages from the diaries at Hull.
86 Diary (Hull), 9 February 1816; 21 April 1816. This is probably Matthew Rolleston, Fellow of University College, who obtained the English Verse Prize in 1807 and 1808, and who took his degree in 1808. He was Select Preacher to the University in 1815. See The Historical Register of the University of Oxford (Oxford, 1900), 829.
87 Dean, Burgon, Lives of Twelve Good Men (London, 1888), 1, 390–1.Google Scholar
88 R. I. and S. Wilberforce, Life, v, 91. Hannah More seems to have been of the same opinion. See E. M. Forster, op. cit. 78.
89 See the discussion of this in Charles, Smyth, Simeon and Church Order, 250–78, especially 276–8 for Venn.Google Scholar
90 Henfield MSS., ‘Fragments’, pp. 119–20.
91 See criticism of an orthodox sermon in 1823 in ‘Fragments’, p. 15.
92 See William's criticism of one of Robert's sermons in Wilberforce, A. M., Private Papers of William Wilberforce (London, 1897), 242.Google Scholar
93 Henfield MSS., ‘Fragments’, p. 92.
94 Letter to his daughter Elizabeth, 12 July 1823, in ‘Fragments’, pp. 87–8.
95 Brilioth, Y., Three Lectures on Evangelicalism and the Oxford Movement (London, 1934), 28–30.Google Scholar
96 Ibid. 29.
97 Birmingham Oratory, Newman Papers, box 137, no. 1, 21 April 1831.
98 P. 519.
99 Henfield MSS, letters of Barbara Wilberforce, no. 11.
100 Wrangham MSS., box 7, no. 47.
101 This is admirably illustrated in E. M. Forster, op. cit. 130–4.
102 Henfield MSS., James Stephen Bundle, no. 2.
103 Henfield MSS., ‘Fragments’, pp. 12–13.
104 Autobiography of William Jay, 317–18.
105 Wrangham MSS., box 7, no. 10, 27 January 1830.
106 Wrangham MSS., box 7, no. 35, 7 May 1837.
107 Henfield MSS., Robert Wilberforce to Samuel, no. 7 (on Ryder); Wrangham MSS., box 7, no. 72 (on C. R. Sumner) and nos. 37 and 46 (on J. B. Sumner).
108 Wrangham MSS., box 7, no. 39, 29 October 1833.
109 Ashwell, A. R. and Wilberforce, R. G., Life of Samuel Wilberforce (London, 1880–2), 1, 54. Cf. Mr Brown on p. 489 n. 1.Google Scholar
110 Wrangham MSS., box 7, nos. 3–5.
111 Wrangham MSS., box 5, no. 53.
112 Wrangham MSS., box 5, nos. 47, 57, 69, 159.
113 Wrangham MSS., box 5, no. 152.
114 Wrangham MSS., box 5, no. 79.
115 Wrangham MSS., box 5, no. 81.
116 Birmingham Oratory, Newman Papers, Miscellaneous Letters, 1829–36, nos. 61, 66, 67, 69.
117 Wrangham MSS., box 5, no. 169 (29 January 1838 to Robert: ‘Advise me: I think of anti-Pusey sermon on the Prodigal Son’). Cf. Birmingham Oratory, Newman Notebook, A. 7. 36, where Newman writes ‘ Whatever alliance there was between us was brought to an end by his (S.W.'s) preaching against Pusey's views on Baptism in the University pulpit’.
118 P. 528.
