Reference code: GB-0298-LC/P5
Title: Manning-King Letters
Dates of creation: 1889-1891
Extent: 1 file
Held by: Ushaw
Origination: Lisbon College
Language: English
Henry Edward Manning was born in Totteridge, Hertfordshire, in 1808. He was educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford, before his ordination to the Anglican Ministry in 1832. Rising to the position of archdeacon of Chichester, Manning was
often critical of the Anglican Church which, following the Gorham Judgement, led ultimately to his conversion to Catholicism in 1851. He spent the following three years at the Accademia dei Nobili Ecclesiastici before Cardinal Wiseman appointed him
Inspector of Schools in 1856. In this position, he was responsible for organising a network of elementary schools throughout the archdiocese of Westminster and making provision for Catholic university education. In 1860, Pope Pius IX made him a
prothonotary apostolic and domestic relation following his staunch defence of the temporal power of the papacy.
Following the death of Nicholas Wiseman in 1865, Manning was appointed archbishop of Westminster. In this role, he was particularly active in promoting improved social conditions amongst the Catholics of Ireland, which included encouraging total
abstinence, a better education system, improved labour relations, and social welfare. He was also involved in enhancing the status of the pastoral clergy in the rest of Britain which, although it led him into conflict with the Jesuits and other
religious orders, was a great influence on the papal document
Romanos Pontifices (1881) which sought to regulate relations between the English bishops and their clergy. At the Vatican Council in 1870, Manning faced serious criticism in promoting the decree of papal infallibility,
but his continuing defence of papal authority was rewarded five years later when he was raised to the cardinalate. He died on 14 January 1892.
47 letters, mostly from Cardinal Henry Edward Manning to Miss Harriet Eleanor Hamilton King (poet), offering brief notes of spiritual advice.
Lisbon College closed in 1973 and this collection, along with the rest of the Lisbon Archive and Library, was transferred to Ushaw College by Mgr James Sullivan in the following year.
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The papers follow the original arrangement of the collection which is broadly chronological.
Calendared card catalogue
LC/P5/1 3 October 1889
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: wishing to see her tomorrow; thanks her for the manuscript
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LC/P5/2 13 October 1889
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: glad to hear that she found her union with God; understands her fears about intellectual religion; advises against overtaxing herself
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LC/P5/3 19 October 1889
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: thanks her for the book of ballads
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LC/P5/4 30 October 1889
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: hopes that she will read the book he is sending, especially the chapter on the law of liberty
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LC/P5/5 4 November 1889
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: the Church and the pope; advising her to consider issues quietly
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LC/P5/6 17 November 1889
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: hopes that she is not suffering from neuralgia; sending a book to show that no one is excluded from salvation and no sin can taint the Church; hopes that she will read
The temporal mission of the Holy Ghost
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LC/P5/7 21 November 1889
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: his view that a book seems to accord with Catholic doctrine; his opinions on truth and falsehood and that oriental theism is divine in its source
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LC/P5/8 13 December 1889
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: his view that those seeking the truth from reading books should not be hindered but he will send Ryder's reply to Littledale which reveals the latter's lack of understanding; a discussion
on the difficulties of the Real Presence
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LC/P5/9 24 December 1889
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: his old books allow him to trace his spiritual progress; reading Ugo Bassi's letters; his stay in Rome from December 1847 to May 1848
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LC/P5/10 31 December 1889
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: his view that she rightly expresses his meaning in
The Intuition of Faith, reference to Newman's
Development; his opinion that King's life has been one of suffering and advising her against loving God through fear
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LC/P5/11 13 January 1890
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: comforting her following the death of her son
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LC/P5/12 20 February 1890
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: advising her not to go to Switzerland and urging her to carry out God's will
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LC/P5/13 2 March 1890
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: questioning her negative opinion of the Catholic Church and suggesting her grief is maternal rather than worldly
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LC/P5/14 13 March 1890
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: urging her to be aware of the unseen world and to have confidence that her son is alive in Christ
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LC/P5/15 19 March 1890
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: arrangements to see her
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LC/P5/16 1 April 1890
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: sending a
Rule of Life and advice on self-consciousness
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LC/P5/17 [26 May] 1890
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: the importance of Whitsun to her
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LC/P5/18 3 July 1890
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: urging her to leave her sorrows in the past and the importance of recalling the presence of God
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LC/P5/19 9 July 1890
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: advising her to submit patiently under sorrow for the present
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LC/P5/20 29 July 1890
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: asking her not to reproach herself for silence as it is often better than speech; suggesting that all the prayers of the Church are plural and that we are never alone
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LC/P5/21 22 August 1890
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: advising her that entering the Catholic Church will be good for her and her own children; the deaths of two close friends [probably one of these is John Henry Newman] remind him of the
nearness of his own call
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LC/P5/22 28 August 1890
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: arrangements for Holy Communion
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LC/P5/23 1 September 1890
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: happy to hear that her children and nurse accepted her conversion
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LC/P5/24 9 September 1890
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: advising her against creating imaginary torment; urging her not to give up her friend unless he breaks away because of divine truth
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LC/P5/25 2 October 1890
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: wishing to see all her children; views on peace dispelling the activity of a sorrowful mind
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LC/P5/26 24 October 1890
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: his belief that there is no antagonism from her children; urging her to seek peace
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LC/P5/27 27 October 1890
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: agreeing to meet her and Miss Chapman on Thursday
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LC/P5/28 28 November 1890
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: suggesting that she uses her money to support charities
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LC/P5/29 14 December 1890
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: asking her to visit any day
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LC/P5/30 1 January 1891
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: advice on praying for her nurse
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LC/P5/231 1 February 1891
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: her nurse's recovery a blessing; advising her that her suffering on behalf of others confirms her to a divine life
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LC/P5/32 28 February 1891
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: his meeting with Mr Smith; Manning's belief that the Master Federation seems to be blind
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LC/P5/33 10 April 1891
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: arrangements for visiting
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LC/P5/34 31 May 1891
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: his sorrow that her son's return is marred by pain
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LC/P5/35 20 June 1891
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: advising her that the only relief from pain is to see it as God's will; hopes that her nurse's illness might have calmed her temper
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LC/P5/36 23 August 1891
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: hoping that her children will bring her consolation
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LC/P5/37 7 September 1891
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: thanking her for books which will go to the Oblates' Library; suggesting that St Elizabeth's Hospital would be good for Lily
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LC/P5/38 15 September 1891
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: asking her not to write in such a manner again
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LC/P5/39 21 September 1891
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: urging her not to think about her idealisation again in spite of the fact that she is a poet
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LC/P5/40 25 October 1891
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: thanking her for Volume 3
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LC/P5/41 28 October 1891
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: informing her that if her daughter brings the book he will sign it
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LC/P5/42 29 November 1891
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: he is sorry for her troubles and will pray for Katie
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LC/P5/43 2 December 1891
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: asking her to try to be submissive to sorrow and that God will answer her prayers
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LC/P5/44 18 December 1891
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: advising her that the best she could wish for her child is that God takes her before she is tarnished by the world
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LC/P5/45 21 December 1891
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: the length of her illness gives him hope as he endured a similarly long illness
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LC/P5/46 24 December 1891
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: advising her that God does not punish children for the sins of their ancestors
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LC/P5/47 1 January 1892
Letter from Cardinal Henry Manning to Mrs Hamilton King: urging her not to give up hope and to seek only God's will
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LC/P5/48 4 April 1895
Letter from W.A. Johnson to Mrs Hamilton King: thanking her for the two books on Manning; recalling his death
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LC/P5/49 25 March [?1895]
Letter from Mrs Hamilton King to [Langton George Vane]: her recent burglary in which the burglar took the memorial of the late Cardinal Manning but not his letters
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