Item 265 - Postcard from Henry Sidgwick to F. W. H. Myers

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Add. MS c/100/265

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

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  • [25] May 1875 (Creation)

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Fears that he will be engaged on Friday. Announces that there is to be a meeting on Saturday, and that 'George D[arwin] is constructing, and planning ligatures'. Reports that there are lots of applications for admission [to séances with the Newcastle mediums], and believes that 'people are beginning to think it is a part of the Cambridge Festivities, and want to know who gives tickets'. Claims that they are full, however, except for Sundays, and suggests that if Yorke comes 'it had better be for the Sunday. Asks whether Gurney will come.

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      Part transcription in Sidgwick, Arthur, and Sidgwick, E. M, 'Henry Sidgwick'. London: Macmillan, 1906, p 297.

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