To think that you remember me continually is indeed
a most consoling thought. May it always be so, and
may I be more worthy of it."

In November, 1844, he sends him an extract from a
letter of Judge Coleridge about the gratitude, vener-
ation, and love which many in the English Church feel
towards him, and adds —

"Therefore, my^ dear Newman, do not in any case
imagine that you have not hundreds, not to say
thousands, sympathizing with you, and feeling indeed
that they owe their very selves to you. I can only
speak for one of certain knowledge. Your sermons put
me in the way, and your healing ministration helped
me beyond measure. This is certain knowledge of
mine, .... and wherever I go there is some one to
whom you have been a channel of untold blessing.
You must not be angry, for I feel as if I could not help
saying it, and I am sure the very air of England all
around you would say the same, if it could be made
vocaL They have had unspeakable help from you, and it
is now their turn to help you with their prayers and
good wishes, now that you seem to be called for a while
to be patient in comparative silence and inactivity."

On February 20, 1845, he writes an aflfectionate
birthday letter, recalling the bright associations of the
day in which the first stone of Littlemore Church was
laid. This is printed in Newman's Letters, and need
not be repeated here ; but the following letter, which
closes the correspondence, though already published, is
too touching to be omitted.
