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struggleb etween conflicting
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College.
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS
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CONTENTS
ABBREVIATIONS
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INTRODUCTION
I
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EDITORS NOTE II
1862-1867
To Luxmoore, 7 May 1862 13
To his Mother, 22 April 1863 14
To Baillie, 10/13 July 1863
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Early Diaries, 1863 16
Early Diaries, 1864 16
To Coleridge, 1 June 1864 17
To Baillie, 10/u Sept. 1864 18
Early Diaries, 1865 22
Early Diaries, 1866 23
Journal, 3 May 1866 23
To Newman, 28 Aug. 1866 24
To Bridges, 22/24 Sept. 1866 2
s
To Urquhart, 24 Sept. 1866 27
To Newman, (15) Oct. 1866 28
To his Father, 16/17 Oct. 1866 29
To his Mother, 20 Oct. 1866 33
Journal, 22 Aug. 1867 33
To Urquhart, 30 Sept. 1867 4
3
1868-1877
To Baillie, 12 F eh. 1868 36
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To Urquhart, 13 June 1868 37
Journal, 1868 38
J oumal, 1869 44
To his Mother, Io Sept. I 870 46
Journal, 24 Sept. 1870 47
To Baillie, 10 April 1871 49
J oumal, 1871 50
To Kate Hopkins, 25 April 1871 52
Journal, 1871 SJ
Contents
To Bridges, 2 Aug. 1871
J oumal, 1872-4
To his Father, 29 Aug. 1874
Journal, 1874
To his Mother, 20 Sept. 1874
J oumal, 1874
To his Mother, 26 June 1876
To Bridges, 21 Aug. 1877
To his Mother, 9 Oct. 1877
1878-1883
To his Mother, 27 Jan. 1878 68
To Bridges, 13/21 May 1878 69
To Dixon, 13 June 1878 70
To Dixon, 5 Oct. 1878 71
To Bridges, 29 Jan. 1879 74
To Bridges, 15 F eh. 1879 76
To Dixon, 27 Feb./13 March 1879
77
To Dixon, 12 May 1879 78
To Bridges, 14 Aug. 1879 79
To Bridges, 8 Oct. 1879 80
To Bridges, 22 Oct./18 Nov. 1879 81
To Dixon, 31 Oc�. 1879 83
Sermon at Bedford Leigh, 2 3 Nov. 1879 84
Sermon at Bedford Leigh, 30 Nov. 1879 86
Sermon at St Francis Xavier's, Liverpool,
11 Jan. 1880 88
To his Mother, 2 March 1880 91
To his Mother, 30 April 1880 92
To Baillie, 22 May 1880 93
Notes on Principium sive Fundamentum, 1880 94
To Bridges, 26 Jan. 1881 95
To his Mother, 2 March 1881 96
To Bridges, 27 April/1 May 1881 9
7
To Dixon, 12/17 Oct. 1881 97
To Dixon, 29 Oct. 1881 99
To Dixon, 1/16 Dec. 1881 102
On the Principle or Foundation, 1881-2 107
Meditation on Hell, ?1881-2 109
Contents
To Bridges, 10 June 1882
Ill
To Bridges, 26/27 Sept. 1882 112
To Baillie, 14 Jan. 1883 114
To Bridges, 3/10 Feb. 1883 116
To Bridges, 26 July 1883 118
To Dixon, 15/16 Aug. 1883 118
To Patmore, 24 Sept. 1883 120
To Patmore, 6/7 Dec. 1883 123
A letter to Nature, 21 Dec. 1883 124
1884-1889
To Bridges, 7 March 1884 127
To Bridges, 18 July 1884 128
To Bridges, 21/24 Aug. 1884 129
To his Sister Kate, 9 Dec. 1884 130
To his Mother, 2 March 1885 130
To Baillie, 24 April 1885 131
To Bridges, 17 May 1885 134
To Bridges, 1 Sept. 1885 135
To Everard Hopkins, 5/8 Nov. 1885 136
To Patmore, 4/6 June 1886 139
To Bridges, 2 Oct. 1886 140
To Patmore, 6 Oct. 1886 141
To Bridges, 13 Oct. 1886 143
To Dixon, 2 3 Oct. 1886 143
To Bridges, 28 Oct. 1886 146
To Bridges, 17 Feb 1887 149
To Bridges, 30 July 1887 1)1
To Patmore, 20/24 Oct. 1887 152
To Bridges, 6 Nov. 1887 154
To Baillie, 1 May 1888 157
To Patmore, 6 May 1888 158
To his Mother, ; July 1888 160
To Bridges, 7 Sept. 1888 161
To Bridges, 19/20 Oct. 1888 162
Retreat Notes, 1 Jan. 1889 163
To Bridges, 2 3 F eh. 1889 167
To his Mother,; May 1889 168
Contents
BIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX
171
NOTES 179
WORKS REGULARLY CONSULTED
220
INDEX
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