It possesses an introduction of great autobiographical interest.
But all this time (since 1841) Newman had been under a cloud, so far as concerned the great mass of cultivated Englishmen, and he was now awaiting an opportunity to vindicate his career; and in 1862 he began to prepare autobiographical and other memoranda for the purpose.
A collection of his historical works, with autobiographical notice, was published in 15 volumes (Göttingen, 1821-1830).
As his design took shape he expanded the supernatural element and made the narratives autobiographical.
Cecil, meanwhile, had obtained the reversion to the office of custos rotulorum brevium, and, according to his autobiographical notes, sat in.
