Item 43 - Letter from Henry Sidgwick to his mother

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Encloses a cheque [not included] for the amount of his debt. Explains that he has marked with a cross the items in the bill which he returns. Reports that he is getting on 'tolerably well' [in Cambridge], but has more to do for the following term than he had expected. States that he is 'getting on with' his stammering, and has been reading aloud, including Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France. Claims that the latter is the best reading aloud he knows, not excepting [ ] Macaulay. Is glad to hear that things are looking up for his mother, and remarks what a wonderful place Rugby is for changing. Asks is not Scott's house small. Reports that he heard 'all about the Butler.' Hopes that Edward 'is not much depopulated by the additional anxiety of sick masters'.