Excerpt from First Letter to the Very Rev. J. H. Newman, D. D: In Explanation, Chiefly in Regard to the Reverential Love Due to the Ever-Blessed Theotokos, and the Doctrine of Her Immaculate Conception; With an Analysis of Cardinal De Turrecremata's Work on the Immaculate Conception My Dearest Friend, First, let me thank you for the love shewn in your letter, a love which was such joy to my youth, and now is so cheering to my old age. 2. Next let me say, that I should indeed have thought it not rude only but insolent, to imply that "writing does not become" you. In the sentences which you quote, I was thinking, partly (as I said) of myself, "had the English Church, by accepting heresy, driven me out of it," partly, of an unpractical habit of mind of some who have gone over to the Roman Church, because they could accept the letter of the Council of Trent in their own sense. Nothing has been further from my mind than any criticism of yourself, whom I still admire as well as love. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.