Table of Contents:
  • Fraser's Magazine articles : "A 'note' of interrogation ; "A sub 'note of interrogation.' I what will be our religion in 1999?" ; Reaction to the Fraser's Magazine essays ; A note on liberty
  • Nightingale's unpublished essays : "What is theology?" ; "The character of God" ; "Evidence of a perfect God" ; "Sympathy" ; "Harmony" ; "Christian fellowship/God's fellowship" ; "The family" ; "The new moral world" ; "Private judgment" ; "Truth and feeling"
  • Journal notes and letters : Introduction ; The nature of God and Christ ; The afterlife, heaven and hell ; Three visions ; The place of mysticism
  • Correspondence and notes on Roman Catholicism : Letters to, from and about Henry Manning ; Letters to Rev Mother Mary Clare Moore ; Religious orders ; The convent of Port Royal ; Letters and notes on "going over to Rome"
  • Correspondence and notes on Protestantism : Protestant denominations and divisions ; Her evangelical "aunt," Hannah Nicholson ; Heresy charges against F.D. Maurice ; With her father, W.E. Nightingale, on religion ; With her evangelical brother-in-law, Sir Harry Verney ; On Protestant sisterhoods ; On Michael Faraday and the Sandemanian sect ; On the church in Ireland ; To home missionary Catherine Marsh ; Miscellaneous letters and notes: clergy and missionaries ; On the selection of vicars at Claydon
  • Exchanges with Jowett on religion : Introduction ; Letters ; Nightingale's proposals for The School and Children's Bible edited by Ǵérard Vallée ; Notes and excerpts from/for Benjamin Jowett ; The controversy over Essays and Reviews
  • Excerpts from devotional reading : Robert Falconer ; Tale of the refugee nuns ; Notes from the Marquise de Lafayette ; Savonarola
  • Appendix A: biographical sketches : Benjamin Jowett (1817-93) ; Henry Edward (Cardinal) Manning (1808-92) ; (Rev Mother) Mary Clare Moore (1814-74) ; Mary Jones (1812-87).