Articles Plymouth Brethren, in Encyclopedia Britannica, by Lindsay, and in Schaff’s Herzog’s Religious Encyclopedia, by E. E. Whitfield. (Professor Lindsay’s article, though short, is excellent, but needs correction as to early details. Mr. Whitfield is very good for detail, but is very partial to Brethrenism. The same fault mars his article on J. N. Darby.) Article J. N. Darby, by Boase, Dictionary of National Biography. Miller’s The Brethren, their Origin, Progress and Testimony, contains a good account of the social and theological aspects of Darbyism.
A Letter from J. G. Bellett to J. McAlister, freely circulated in manuscript, with additional notes by J. N. Darby, E. Cronin, G. V. Wigram and J. B. Stoney, is the great authority. Hardly less valuable is the Memoir of A. N. Groves by his widow. For the original environment of Brethrenism, Professor G. T. Stokes’ article, “John Nelson Darby,” Contemtporary Review, October 1885; D’Acy Sirr, Memoir of the last Archbishop of Tuam. Recollections of J. G. Bellett, by his daughter, is scanty for the early period, and deals throughout chiefly with Bellett’s private life. The first three tracts by Darby, reprinted in his Collected Writings, Ecclesiastical, vol. i. F. W. Newman, Phases of Faith.
As Chapter I., especially Newman, Stokes, Sirr (pp. 217, seq.; 332, seq.) . Daly, Letters of Viscountess Powerscourt.
