Item 118 - Postcard from Henry Sidgwick to F. W. H. Myers

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Add. MS c/100/118

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

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  • Aug. 1874 (Creation)

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Sidgwick, Henry (1838-1900), philosopher
(1838-1900)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Thanks him for the warning. Explains that he has been detained longer where he is, and finds that he must go to Cambridge for a day or two to settle matters. States that he cannot come before '15th or 17th', but undertakes to come then, unless he receives a communiqué from Terling [home of Lord Rayleigh and his wife [Nora Sidgwick's sister] first. States that he will write decisively on Wednesday '[12th]', or will telegraph on Thursday. Adds that he will write again the following day, 'after hearing the decision of "Mr John Morley"' [who was reading the proofs of Sidgwick's The Methods of Ethics].

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