her,' Mr.
Gladstone wrote to his brother John, 'is the loss of a great object of
love, and it is the shattering of a great bond of union. Among few
families of five persons will be found differences of character and
opinion to the same aggregate amount as among us. We cannot shut our
eyes to this fact; by opening them, I think we may the better strive to
prevent such differences from begetting estrangement.'

FOOTNOTES:

[232] See above, p. 167.

[233] Purcell, _Manning_, i. pp. 528-33.

[234] See J. B. Hope's letter (undated) in Purcell, i. p. 530.

[235] On March 13, Hope writes to Mr. Gladstone from 14 Curzon
Street:--'Keble and Pusey have been with me to-day, and the latter has
suggested some alterations in the resolutions; I have taken upon me to
propose a meeting at your house at 1/4 before 10 to-morrow morning. If
you cannot _or do not wish_ to be present, I do not doubt you will at
any rate allow me the use of your rooms.' The meeting seems to have
taken place, for the entry on March 14 in Mr. Gladstone's diary is
this:--'Hope, Badeley, Talbot, Cavendish, Denison, Dr. Pusey, Keble,
Bennett, here from 93/4 to 12 on the draft of the resolutions. Badeley
again in the evening. On the whole I resolved to try some immediate
effort.' This would appear to be the last meeting, and Manning is not
named as present. On the 18th:--'Drs. Mill, Pusey, etc., met here in the
evening, I was not with them.' On the same day Mr. Gladstone had written
to the Rev. W. Maskell, 'As respects myself, I do not intend to pursue
the consideration of them with those who meet to-night, first, because
the pressure of other business has become very heavy upon me, and
secondly and mainly, because I do not consider that the time for any
enunciation of a character pointing to ultimate issues will have arrived
until the Gorham judgment shall have taken effect.' No later meeting is
ever mentioned.

[236] Purcell professed to rectify the matter in the fourth edition, i.
p. 536, but the reader is nowhere told that Mr. Gladstone disavowed the
original story.

[237] _Letter to the Right Rev. William Skinner, Bishop of Aberdeen and
Primus, on the functions of laymen in the Church_, reprinted in
_Gleanings_, vi. Also _Letter_ to Mr. Gladstone on this letter by
Charles Wordsworth, the Warden of Glenalmond. Oxford. J. H. Parker,
1852.

[238] _Gleanings_, vi. p. 17.

[239] In 1868 Mr. Gladstone urged him to produce an abridged version of
Lockhart