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[Extract of a Letter of Francis William Newman to John Henry Tucker.]

June 1892

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        I have not heard whether your father, like me, is favoured by life continued, but I venture to send a copy of my hymns. . . . To-day I have received a letter and book in Bengali from a believer in Theosophy, supposing me to be one of them! Hence I was not too early in telling my friends that since at the age of fourteen I became a Conscious Christian, no unbelief has made my hymns less precious, mutato saltem nomine. . . . My change more than fifty years ago was on Historical arguments mainly.