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Add. MS c/100/232
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Letter from Henry Sidgwick to F. W. H. Myers
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- [May 1872?] (Creation)
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Declares that a 'Friend hopes that "Fortune" is merely deferred - as also Fame...' [Note in Myers' hand explains this is a reply 'to some mock-heroic lines announcing (Myers') relinquishment of any project in the Direction of (word deleted)]. Thanks him for the enclosure.
Claims to begin gradually 'to have a conception of [Cyril?] Flower.' States that he is reading [George Meredith's] latest novel [Harry Richmond] 'with a painful sense of genius wasted'. Thinks 'the Septimus [Felton]" will [come] out a fair Hawthorne, not more.' Announces that he expects to hear of Hayman on Saturday from Arthur'.
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Part transcription in Sidgwick, Arthur, and Sidgwick, E. M, 'Henry Sidgwick'. London: Macmillan, 1906, p 267.
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- Myers, Frederic William Henry (1843-1901), psychical researcher and essayist (Subject)
- Flower, Cyril (1843-1907) 1st Baron Battersea, politician (Subject)
- Meredith, George (1828-1909), novelist and poet (Subject)
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864) author (Subject)
- Hayman, Henry (1823-1904) educationist (Subject)
- Sidgwick, Arthur (1840–1920), educationist and classical scholar (Subject)