Pièce 23 - Letter from Helen Gladstone to Nora Sidgwick

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Typewritten. Refers to the letter Henry sent her at the time of her 'Holloway invitation', and explains that she has kept forgetting to send it to her, along with another which belongs with it. Sends them [105/21-22], stating that they seem to her characteristic of Henry in that they put forward many sides to a situation, and were helpful to her in arriving at a decision. Refers to two passages that 'if written by almost anyone else in the world, would have seemed to [her] most sarcastic', but being written by Henry, she does not feel them so at all. Has always felt grateful that Henry 'had no scorn in him for those who were not clever, nor even for those who were ignorant, provided they were not pretentious and conceited....' Will never cease to be thankful for being on somewhat intimate terms with Henry, and says this is one of the many things she owes to Newnham.

ADD.MS.c/105/21 - Copy of letter, 9 Jul 1886, from Henry Sidgwick to Helen Gladstone, on the subject of her possible move to be first principal of Royal Holloway College.
ADD.MS.c/105/22 - Copy of letter, 27 Jul 1886, from Henry Sidgwick to Helen Gladstone, also on the subject of her possible move to be first principal of Royal Holloway College.