Description | 3 cuttings forming a cohesive fragment of a folio. Includes:
(1): Account of a lecture delivered by Rev. Cumming on behalf of the British Reformation Society. The lecture is a lengthy attack on the Tractarian ideology of the Oxford Movement led by Dr. Edward Bouverie Pusey.
(2): 'Letter to the Editor of the Times' from a Mr. S. G. Osborne. Dated October 6, year unknown, and titled 'The Rubric and the Grave'. The letter is a rather round-about criticism of Tractarian practices. Much of the last section of the letter has been torn away.
(3): Account of a lecture delivered by Rev. Cumming, in which he roundly criticises and seeks to rebut the assertions of William James Early Bennett's 'First letter to Lord John Russell on the present persecution of a portion of the English Church'. c1851. |