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Add. MS c/99/162
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Letter from Henry Sidgwick to his mother
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- 30 Apr [1872] (Creation)
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Informs her that the Reverend T.R. Birks has been elected Professor of Moral Philosophy. Claims not to be bothered by this development, because a professorship would entail '[m]ore dust, more dross, in comparison with Knowledge and Virtue'; because his election would have meant not great increase in income; and also because 'it would have entailed several woes', including being asked to dinner by '[s]everal more stupid people'. Tells her not to waste any sympathy on him, and to keep it all for 'H[enry] H[ayman] who...will soon want it'. Hopes to go to Rugby on 11 May. Hopes that her cough is better.
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Part transcription in Sidgwick, Arthur, and Sidgwick, E. M, 'Henry Sidgwick'. London: Macmillan, 1906, p 263-264.