LIFE

JOURNALS and LETTERS

of

HENRY ALFORD, D.D.

LATE DEAN OF CANTERBURY

EDITED BY HIS WIDOW

THIRD EDITION

RIVINGTONS

London, Oxford, and Cambridge

1874

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

1810–1828

Parentage—Birth—Childhood—At School and with a Private Tutor

CHAPTER II

1828–1832

Life at Cambridge as an Undergraduate—Goes to read at Portsmouth—Meeting with W. Wordsworth—Bell’s Scholar

CHAPTER III

1832–1840

First publishes Poems—Pupils—Curacy at Ampton—Fellow of Trinity—Marriage—Becomes Vicar of Wymeswold—Tour to Belgium, Switzerland, and North Italy—Edits Dearden’s Miscellany

CHAPTER IV

1840–1847

Visitation Sermon—Correspondence with Miss E. Mott—Appointed Hulsean Lecturer at Cambridge, and Examiner in Logic in the University of London—Tours on the Continent—Death of Youngest Son—New Vicarage built—Restoration of Wymeswold Church begun—National School-room built—Compiles a larger Hymn Book for Wymeswold, and publishes a Volume of Sermons—Visits Bonn

CHAPTER V

1847–1851

Gives up Pupils—Publishes another Volume of Sermons—Publishes the First Volume of Greek Testament—Candidate for the Regius Professorship of Divinity, Cambridge—Death of his Eldest Son

CHAPTER VI

1851–1853

Letters concerning the Greek Testament—Three Months’ Residence in London—Death of his Father—Removal to London as Minister of Quebec Chapel

CHAPTER VII

1853–1857

London Work—Crimean War—Tour to the Pyrenees—Controversy on the Sabbath Question—Tour in Scotland—Revision of Part of the Authorized Version of the New Testament—Appointed to the Deanery of Canterbury

CHAPTER VIII

1857–1860

Work at Canterbury—Tour in Germany—The Evangelical Alliance at Berlin—Tour in the West of Scotland—Visits the West of England—Bishop Mackenzie’s Farewell Service at Canterbury—Last Volume of the Greek Testament

CHAPTER IX

1861–1862

Masque of “The Seasons”—First Visit to Rome—Preaches before the Queen—Cathedral Repairs—Autumn at the Lakes—Translation of the Odyssey published—Death of the Prince Consort—Visit to Nice—Tour in Switzerland—Death of Archbishop Sumner, and Enthronement of Archbishop Longley

CHAPTER X

1863–1867

New Testament for English Readers—Queen’s English—King’s School Rebuilding—Consecration in Canterbury Cathedral—Winter in Rome—Canterbury Harmonic Union formed—Sojourn at Callander—Attends Norwich Congress—Year of Prayer and Year of Praise—Autumn Home at Vines Gate—First Canterbury Mission—Lectures at Glasgow—Netherton-on-Sea

CHAPTER XI

1867–1870

Archbishop Longley’s Ordination at Canterbury—Visits Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly—Death of Archbishop Longley and Enthronement of Archbishop Tait—Visits to the Riviera—Revised Version of the New Testament—Lectures at Liverpool, Leeds, and Bradford—Illustrated Books in Contemplation—Commentary on the Old Testament—Scheme to visit the Holy Land—Company for Revising the New Testament—Last Tour on the Continent—Autumn at Vines Gate—Visit to the East Coast of Scotland

CHAPTER XII

1870–1871

Declining Health—Revision Work relinquished—Old Testament Commentary suspended...