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Miss Bruce tells us that Francis Newman and Augustus de Morgan, Dr. Carpenter, and other famous lecturers were among the first to lecture there. I imagine it was here that the friendship of forty years between Anna Swanwick and Francis Newman began. The former was specially impressed with Newman's method of teaching mathematics. I quote her words from Miss Bruce's Memoir:
Yet these topics are indefinitely postponed. The Tories do not even talk of them. Some 'Liberals' round Mr. "Alas! When it is told, people will not believe it." The final letter from Francis Newman to Anna Swanwick, from the collection so kindly lent me by Miss Bruce, is dated 17th April, 1897, "15 Arundel Crescent, Weston-super-Mare." It is not written by himself.
By that time he was too feeble to be able to write, and of course it was only a few months before his death. This letter was written in response to one from Anna Swanwick. To me, I must frankly own, it breathes of the past tragedy, of those doubts and fears by which Newman's religious life had been beset.
I have three or four times contradicted and renounced the passage ... but I cannot reach those whom I have misled." I have mentioned before that Francis Newman returned to his earlier faith in Christianity a few years before his death. It remains, therefore, to give the proofs which have been put into my hands regarding this fact. Two of his very greatest friends, Anna Swanwick and Dr.
After mentioning the immense number of letters which he had to answer, and how the trouble of replying was almost beyond his strength, he says, "The sister-like affection of my honoured friend Anna Swanwick has ... again and again won me to London;... but the place seems never to agree with me.
Anna Swanwick, to whom the following letters were written at various intervals, was well known for her philanthropic and educational work among the poorer classes, and also for her earnest endeavours for the larger development of women's work and education. A large part of her own education in Greek and Hebrew was carried forward at Berlin. In 1830 Bedford College was opened.
Martineau, received from his own hands the knowledge that he wished it to be known that he died a Christian. I shall give a quotation from one of Newman's last letters to the former, from Miss Bruce's Memoir of Recollections of Anna Swanwick. In almost illegible writing, he says:
Ritchie, Miss Anna Swanwick, the translator of AEschylus, and other good company, besides that of my entertainer. One of my very agreeable experiences was a call from a gentleman with whom I had corresponded, but whom I had never met. This was Mr.
I cannot but mention here the supreme service Anna Swanwick was able to render Newman at the end of his life. It was in the last letter which he wrote to her, when he was ninety-two, that these words occur. This letter was written shortly before his death. Since I have been writing this memoir I had a letter from Mr. William Tallack, who quoted these words of Mr.
THE MAID OF ORLEANS is contributed by Miss Anna Swanwick, whose translation of Faust has since become well known. It has been. carefully revised, and is now, for the first time, published complete.
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