Item 189 - Letter from Henry Sidgwick to his mother

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Add. MS c/99/189

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Letter from Henry Sidgwick to his mother

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  • 27 Oct 1876 (Creation)

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[Sent from Hillside, Cambridge]:- States that he has been occupied in preparing his annual report of the 'A.F.P.T.H.E.O.W.I.C.' [the Association for Promoting the Higher Education of Women in Cambridge], which is, he informs her, the association of which she is one of the patrons. Reports that Nora 'is doing mathematics' and arranging the interior decoration of their house; says 'Everybody in Cambridge seems to think that this house was made for us'. Refers to the dilapidated condition of the garden, describes his new study, and states that from its window he can see 'across the leafy [ ] of Magdalene.' Reports that Edward Benson has just arrived from Winchester, and says that 'all are well at the [Chancery].

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      Part transcription in Sidgwick, Arthur, and Sidgwick, E. M, 'Henry Sidgwick'. London: Macmillan, 1906, p 325-326

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