[38] Mrs. J. Mozley to J.H.N., December 1, 1842: "I suppose you are able to make use of your violin now you are at Littlemore. I have been practising hard lately, and wish you could come, that I might turn my practice to good account." (Mozley, Corr. ii. 405.) Father Lockhart, too, refers to Newman's playing at Littlemore "exquisite sonatas of Beethoven." (Paternoster Review, Sept. 1890.) Father Coffin, afterwards Bishop of Southwark, assisted at the musical performances.
[39] Verses on Various Occasions, p. 86, Edit. 1888.
[40] Essays, i. Fifth Edit. 1881; Mozley, Corr. i. 194.
[41] Idea, dis. iv. 80.
[42] Tablet, 25 Aug. 1877.
[43] Mozley, Corr. i. 97.
[44] Ibid.
[45] "There is a chant of his composing," writes a friend, "which was reckoned at the time a stroke of genius—quite a new idea. I have it in a Collection made by his father, who was organist of Chichester Cathedral," and Bennett's elder brother "was my master at Chichester in 1842. He used to speak of his brother's genius, and what a loss he was to music."
[46] Essays, ii. pp. 443, 444.
[47] Ibid. 442, 443.