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Excerpt from Letters and Correspondence of John Henry Newman During His Life in the English Church, Vol. 1 of 2: With a Brief Autobiography
His high estimate of letters as records and custodians of the truth of things made him from early youth a preserver of letters though his esteem for his correspondent might be the. More prominent motive. In early days a postscript often speaks of arranging letters as one of the tasks of the closing year. The task, as he would perform it, would help to fill in the details of that map of the past which in its outline was so vividly marked in his memory.1 The habits of his life, as being congenial to his nature, were early formed; just as the turn of thought, the tastes, the more powerful bents of his mind, may all be traced to an early dawn.
Few persons preserve their letters; it is, indeed, a rare habit but there was in Newman's letters to his friends, as in his character, a weight and distinctiveness, whether of subject or mode of treatment, which secured them an exemption from the common fate after perusal and, once escaping this, their value increased with years, and, in fact, as time went on, they were felt to be history.
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