Item 183 - Letter from Henry Sidgwick to F. W. H. Myers

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Add. MS c/100/183

Title

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

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  • [5] Aug 1882 (Creation)

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Reports on the burial of his brother-in-law Francis Maitland Balfour, who died in a climbing accident in the Alps. Writes that they 'have just laid the coffin in the earth...on high ground within a cluster of trees', where his wife took him six years agoread more

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Publication note

Part transcription in Sidgwick, Arthur, and Sidgwick, E. M, 'Henry Sidgwick'. London: Macmillan, 1906, p 365-366.

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