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Add. MS c/93/79
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Letter from F. W. Cornish to Henry Sidgwick
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- 20 May 1879 (Creation)
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1 doc
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(1838-1900)
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Thanks Sidgwick for lending him the 'Abstracts'. Allusion to Dante's Commedia. Expresses inability to understand 'how a reasonable man believes in Relics', and refers to Cardinal John Henry Newman, who' has the art of [ ] absurdities without being absurd.