Add. MS c/93/87
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10 Aug 1869
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Refers to Sidgwick's review of his work in the Spectator, and sends his thanks for his criticism. Asks Sidgwick to direct him to the points in his work where the latter claimed to have found 'slip-shod English', and to explain to him why his quotation from [Thomas?] Blacklock denying the immortality of the soul was, in Sidgwick's opinion, 'beside the mark'. Aggrieved by Sidgwick's criticisms of his preface, in which the latter claimed that the author wished to be compared to Aristophanes and Pope.
Courthope, William John (1842-1917), poet and literary scholar, pseudonym Novus Homo