Item 25 - Letter from Alexander Bain to Henry Sidgwick

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Add. MS c/93/25

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Letter from Alexander Bain to Henry Sidgwick

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  • 2 Aug 1886 (Creation)

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Bain, Alexander (1818-1903), psychologist
(1818-1903)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Acknowledges receipt of Sidgwick's work on the History of Ethics. [Outline of the history of ethics for English readers]. Enquires as to whether Fyfe, the professor of moral philosophy [at Aberdeen] has received a copy of it, and suggests that one also be sent to Reverend W. L. Davidson, author of the Logic of Definition., whose address he gives.

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