From 1857 to 1861 he was curate of St Mary the Virgin, Crown Street, Soho, London, where he took an interest in the House of Charity.
Until his death he continued to act as a father confessor, and next to Edward Pusey is said to have heard more confessions than any other priest of the church of England.
Littledale was a contributor to periodicals: Kottabos (a college miscellany, published at Trinity in Dublin),[3] Notes and Queries, the Daily Telegraph, the Church Quarterly Review, and The Academy.
[1] The People's Hymnal contained the hymn Come Down, O Love Divine, for which the words were translated by Littledale from the Italian of Bianco da Siena.
The original poem was included in the Laudi Spirituali del Bianco da Siena of Telesforo Bini, of 1851.
[1] Littledale's Plain Reasons for not joining the Church of Rome, a volume of which thirty-six thousand copies were issued in 1880 and following years, evoked replies from the Rev.
[1] Littledale wrote the articles "Jesuits" and "St. Francis Xavier" for the Ninth and Tenth Editions (1875-89; 1902-03) of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.