Item 29 - Letter from Henry Sidgwick to his mother

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Letter from Henry Sidgwick to his mother

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  • Dec 1863 (Creation)

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Discusses when he might come home, as he cannot decide on whether he should come a week hence or later. Tells her not to take him into account when filling the house, but asks her to let him know on Thursday or Friday whether his room is vacant or not. States that he will come on 24 December at the latest. States that although he is well read in Pneumatological Literature, he has not heard of the book mentioned by her, but undertakes to look for it in the University Library.

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      Part transcription in Sidgwick, Arthur, and Sidgwick, E. M, 'Henry Sidgwick'. London: Macmillan, 1906, p 103.

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