Item 228 - Letter from Henry Sidgwick to F. W. H. Myers

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Add. MS c/100/228

Title

Letter from Henry Sidgwick to F. W. H. Myers

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  • [21 Apr 1872] (Creation)

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1 doc

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Announces that Stirling is not to stand [for the post of Knightsbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy], and that therefore he shall; predicts that if either Venn or Pearson are elected, his days in Cambridge 'will be brief', if he can believe 'read more

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ADD.MS.c.100/229: - MS parody of Tennyson, entitled The Modern Ulysses, which may well have been sent with this letter.

Publication note

Part transcription in Sidgwick, Arthur, and Sidgwick, E. M, 'Henry Sidgwick'. London: Macmillan, 1906, p 262.

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