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- 8 Feb [1882] (Creation)
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Reports that Frank Balfour 'has been for some days in severe fever', and typhoid has been suspected. Claims that some improvement has latterly taken place, and that the pain has somewhat subsided. Refers to the compilation of complaints at Crescent Villa, which they heard about just before Balfour's illness. Hopes that they are all well. Reports that he has seen Arthur [Benson?], and that the same afternoon he came Miss E[llie] Hopkins also called, and absorbed Henry's conversation. Asks her to ask Edward to vote for A.V. Dicey if he should be in the Athenaeum Club between 4 and 6 pm on 20 February. Reports that all is well in Newnham, and that Miss Gladstone is going to be the next Vice President. Explains that it is not yet formally settled, and asks her not to talk of it.
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- Benson, Mary (1841-1918), née Sidgwick, wife of Edward White Benson (Subject)
- Balfour, Francis Maitland (1851-1882), comparative morphologist (Subject)
- Benson, Arthur Christopher (1862-1925), poet and college head (Subject)
- Benson, Edward White (1829-1896), Archbishop of Canterbury (Subject)
- Dicey, Albert Venn (1835-1922), jurist (Subject)
- Athenaeum Club (Subject)
- Newnham College, Cambridge (Subject)
- Gladstone, Helen (1849-1925), educationalist (Subject)