Item 85 - Letter from Herbert Warren to Nora Sidgwick

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Writes to express his sympathy, and that of his wife, to Nora on the death of Henry Sidgwick. Refers to his own 'keen sense of a very unusual loss'. Declares that 'the intellectual and moral capital of [England]...is palpably lessened by his removal', and that his influence was 'like a sort of electricity, brilliant at times ever powerful, that might have destroyed but spent itself ever for good ends....' Speaks of his rare but delightful meetings with Henry. States that he will be very specially missed in Oxford, and that there was 'no Cambridge man whom Oxford young or old more highly esteemed....' Predicts that his works and influence will live on, but that they must go on without him, 'steering in different ways to follow the example he set'. Refers to Nora's own suffering, and to the fact that she would not wish him to be back because of the suffering that he would have to endure.