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Add. MS c/99/31
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Letter from Henry Sidgwick to his mother
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- [22] Mar 1864 (Creation)
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(1838-1900)
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Invites her up [to Cambridge] for Easter Sunday. Says that he will write again from town, where he is going to stay with his friend Cowell. States that he shall be back in Cambridge by the following Wednesday or before. Reports that he has begun reading at the British Museum, and praises the facilities there. Refers to an enclosed list of questions [not included] sent to him from his aunt, which, he admits, he has neglected. Observes that some of the difficulties are theological, not critical, and believes that the writers 'had at best a very dim realization of the immortality of the soul.' Undertakes to write to his aunt also.
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Part transcription in Sidgwick, Arthur, and Sidgwick, E. M, 'Henry Sidgwick'. London: Macmillan, 1906, p 104.
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- Sidgwick, Mary (d 1879), mother of Henry Sidgwick (Subject)
- Cowell, John Jermyn (1838-1867), alpinist (Subject)
- British Museum (Subject)