Item 48 - Letter from Henry Sidgwick to his mother

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Add. MS c/99/48

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Letter from Henry Sidgwick to his mother

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  • [late Jul 1865] (Creation)

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[Sent from Wellington College]:- Reports that he is 'revelling in idleness and hot weather and unbending [his] mind in female society'. Reports that he left Clifton the previous day. Declares that the work was 'so appallingly hard' that he had not time to call on anybody. Maintains that he enjoyed it nonetheless. Hopes to go to his uncle Robert's on the Thursday of the following week, then on to A[ ]cliffs, Biddlesden, Leeds, and 'a flying visit to Halifax.' Asks her opinion of Stone-Gappe. States that he must be in Cambridge again by the end of the month, as he has much reading to do. Announces that he will come to her when he wants to relax slightly. Knows that the atmosphere 'will be too industrious to allow [him] to do more.' Hopes that she won't be too anxious about William's improvement.

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      Part transcription in Sidgwick, Arthur, and Sidgwick, E. M, 'Henry Sidgwick'. London: Macmillan, 1906, p 130.

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