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Add. MS c/100/70
Title
Letter from Henry Sidgwick to Mary "Minnie" Benson
Date(s)
- [Summer 1889] (Creation)
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1 doc
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(1838-1900)
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Declares that if the invitation to the Stationers had come at any other time of the vacation than 'this hayfever season', he would have been happy to accompany Edward to it, but explains that he has come to Brighton to cure his affliction 'and to do hypnotic experiments at the same time', and therefore feels that he ought to stay there. Refers to the fact that she has decided on a matter regarding Hugh. State that they are 'waiting anxiously at Cambridge for a decision as to a proposed change in the age of candidates for the I[ndian]. C[ivil] S[ervice]. Sends Nora's love. Adds that he went to see Minnie on Wednesday 'at the Solemn moment of having had [his] portrait [by J. J. Shannon] finished', but found that she had gone to Windsor.