Letter from John Henry Newman to Messrs Sampson Low & Co

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line 1: The Oratory
line 2: Birmingham
line 3: June 17 1874
line 4:
line 5: Gentlemen
line 6: I doubt not I gave
line 7: leave for my lines "Lead, kindly
line 8: light," to be inserted into your
line 9: collection of Hymns – and did
line 10: so readily, but a stranger has
line 11: been kind enough to write to inform

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line 1: me that your compiler has added
line 2: a verse to it not mine. It is not
line 3: that the verse is not both in sen-
line 4: -timent and language graceful
line 5: and good, but I think you will
line 6: at once see how unwilling an au
line 7: -thor must be to subject himself
line 8: to the inconvenience of that being
line 9: ascribed to him which is not his

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line 1: own.
line 2: I have not seen it myself in
line 3: the "Hymnal Companion" – but the
line 4: stanza has been quoted to me. It
line 5: begins "Meanwhile, along the
line 6: narrow etc.
line 7: I beg you to pardon me, if
line 8: this letter is grounded in any mis-
line 9: -take.
line 10: I am, Gentlemen,
line 11: Your faithful Servant
line 12: John H Newman
line 13:
line 14: Messrs
line 15: Sampson Low
line 16: &Co