John Henry Newman Letters Letters of John Henry Newman to others, most notably the Wilberforce family and, in particular, Henry W. Wilberforce. These letters cover many of the major events in Newman's life, including the development of the Oxford Movement and the controversies surrounding the publication of the Tracts for the Times, his growing anxieties over his position within the Anglican Church and subsequent conversion to Catholicism, the early formation of his ideas on Anglican and Catholic doctrine published in his many works, and the foundation of the Birmingham Oratory. They also reveal a very initimate friendship between Newman and fellow convert Henry Wilberforce which, although sometimes strained in the years immediately following Newman's conversion, remained close until Wilberforce's death in 1873. 1829 - 1953