Item 59 - Letter from Henry Sidgwick to his mother

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Add. MS c/99/59

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Letter from Henry Sidgwick to his mother

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  • [27] July 1865 (Creation)

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Asks her to send the cheque immediately to Cambridge, where he intends to be on Monday. Announces that he is going to stay with Roche Dakyns very early on Thursday. Reports that the house is just being moved there [at Wellington College], and that Edward [Benson] 'is eating breakfast standing with his loins girded' before going 'next to London to order carpets and furniture'. Remarks that the new creature [his niece Maggie] 'seems to [him] as ugly as usual, but the other children are charming.' Reports that he saw the Dakynses at Clifton, and that Graham says his boardinghouse is getting on very nicely. Wishes that he could have seen old friends but his work 'grew harder and harder', and the last day he was up till one o'clock. States that only one day he got a walk of more than half an hour in length [when] Mr Walsh was away. Announces that he is going to be idle now for a bit, and exclaims 'Poor Wilson!'.

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