Item 37 - Letter from Frank Podmore to Henry Sidgwick

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Explains that he had hesitated to write to him before because he did not know whether he would mind being disturbed, but Myers told him that he may do so. Informs him that he and his wife have been thinking about Sidgwick and his wife much during the last few weeks. Refers to the London Psychical Congress, which both couples attended, and at which Sidgwick come to sit down beside the Podmores at lunch. Expresses the admiration and affection he feels towards Sidgwick. Declares that he doesn't very much care 'whether or not there is a personal individual immortality', but that he is sure that there is a unity and a purpose in the cosmos; that the lives and conscious force of individuals persist in some form after death. Thanks Sidgwick for reading his books, and for 'the wise counsel' that he has given him.