| Description | Correspondence with Robert Hugh Benson [1871-1914, Roman Catholic priest and writer].
/1 Letter from Robert Hugh Benson to Oliver Lodge, written from the Catholic Rectory, Cambridge, dated 17 January 1908, with envelope. Benson agrees that service for humanity is the supreme way in which love for God must exercise itself, he discusses the value of actions and motives in terms of aspiration towards the 'Supernatural', and describes Rome as 'the final home to the Supernatural motive'.
/2 Letter from Robert Hugh Benson to Oliver Lodge, written from the Catholic Rectory, Cambridge, dated 11 January [c1908]. Benson clarifies his principal argument in 'Lord of the World', writing of the danger posed by Mr Campbell's 'undogmatic religion' which he believes ultimately resolves itself into the worship of humanity. |