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The Life and letters of Father Bertrand Wilberforce of the Order of Preachers

TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction xiii CHAPTER I 1839-1864 The Wilberforce Family — Characteristics of the Emancipator inherited by his Grandson — Henry Wilberforce : his connection with Dr Newman — Birth of Arthur — Childhood — Conversion of his Parents — Malvern — Goes to Ushaw — Vocation to the Priesthood — Inishbofin — Rome — Anecdotes — Receives Sub-Diaconate — Vocation to Religion — Ordained Deacon — Regrets at leaving Ushaw — Enters the Dominican Novitiate — First Mass — Canon Greene's Reminiscences 1-29 CHAPTER II 1864-1875 Life in the Novitiate — Death of a Novice — Letters to his Family — Religious Profession — Parish Work — In Charge of the Stroud Mission — Letters on Apostasy — Is made Prior of St Dominic's, London — Letters to his Parents — "Good Works" — Death of Mr Wilberforce — Letter from Cardinal Newman to Mr W. Wilberforce — Letters from Father Bertrand to his Sister on her entrance into Religion 30-48 CHAPTER III 1875-1878 Breakdown in Health — Rest at Surbiton — Letter to his Sister on her Profession — Assigned to Woodchester — Story of Canon Akers and Dr Pusey — Holy Death of a Priest — Is appointed Chaplain to the Convent at Stone — Love of the Poor and Sick — L

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