The chronological coverage of Newman's immense correspondence came to an end in 1977 with volume xxxi of this edition, covering the last six years of the cardinal's life but including an appendix of 174 letters which had eluded earlier editors. Since then, more than 520 additional items have been discovered, and are edited here. Many are routine notes of no great significance – to recalcitrant tradesmen or the parents of boys at Newman's Oratory school. Others offer something new – there are thirty-three letters to and from Thomas Arnold, Jr, following his conversion to Catholicism, a reproachful clutch of letters from the Irish bishops in the wake of Newman's resignation as Rector of the Catholic University, a hitherto unpublished journal of Newman's time in Ireland, and an extraordinary memorandum drawn up in November 1884 about an alleged snub to Manning forty years before, in which the old man's resentment of Manning's ‘pumping me as to my religious opinions’ is painfully displayed in all its unhealed rawness. Twelve useful appendices reprint key reviews of some of Newman's writings, reminiscences by contemporaries, and the press coverage of his death and burial. A general index to the whole magnificent series is promised in a thirty-third, and allegedly final, volume, but, as the editor observes, ‘the probability is that more Newman letters will continue to surface for years to come’. Leave room on the shelf.