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Add. MS c/100/259
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Letter from Henry Sidgwick to F. W. H. Myers
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- 3 Aug [1874] (Creation)
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Declares Myers' news to be 'excellent'. Asks how long Miss Bibby [a medium] is to stay, and hopes that 'the thing does not act injuriously on her nerves...' Wishes that he were there. Reports that he has seen Crookes and is 'much impressed.' Announces that Herne comes to him the following night. Announces also that his decisive interview with Morley about his book [The Method of Ethics] is to take place on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. States that he has forwarded Myers' letter to G[urney]. Asks if he [Sidgwick] could go to Myers early the following week 'if this seemed best as regards Terling [home of Lord Rayleigh]'.
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- Myers, Frederic William Henry (1843-1901), psychical researcher and essayist (Subject)
- Crookes, Sir William (1832–1919) Knight, chemist and science journalist (Subject)
- Herne, Francis Gideon (1850-1887) medium (Subject)
- Morley, John (1838-1923), 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, politician (Subject)
- Gurney, Edmund (1847–1888) psychical researcher and psychologist (Subject)
- Strutt, John William (1842-1919), 3rd Baron Rayleigh, experimental and mathematical physicist (Subject)