Item 49 - Letter from Henry Sidgwick to his mother

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Refers to the fact that he ought to have acknowledged the cheque that she sent to him [see 99/59]. Reports that it is now invested in securities 'that are rapidly declining in value.' States that he has had two days in Derbyshire, which had fine scenery', but was very cold. Declares that Roche Dakyns 'is become quite an ideal Radical'. States that he wears no collar, and spends his spare time in lying on the grass reading Norse tales to the village boys, and that he 'talks eloquently of the oppression of the people who wear velvet...and the sufferings of the hard-handed sons of labour who wear fustian.' Declares that it does his heart good to see and hear him. Complains that people are getting so contented with things as they are at Cambridge. Asks her to tell Arthur to send an order to his banker to pay over to Henry's account 'certain monies which [they] agreed were probably [Henry's] by right - unless he has devoted them to charitable objects'. Explains that the banker sternly refuses to credit them to him on any other conditions.