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Add. MS c/103/139 · Item · 9 Mar [1906?]
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States how interesting she finds Henry Sidgwick: A Memoir and says it gives one 'the story of the inner life'. Refers to the joy she felt when 'the "new sweetness" ' came into Henry's life, and remarks on how different all would have been had he not met Nora. Says howgrateful she always was to the Sidgwicks for their kindness in asking her to come and see them. Recalls Henry's patience with her 'crude setting forth of [her] ideas'. Tells Nora to [burn] the enclosed [not included], and explains that they are for those to whom she gave 'the Life.' Adds that she is very grieved by Mr [Charles Saville?] Roundell's death, and reports that Mrs Roundell 'is terribly brokenhearted'. Recalls that Mr Roundell often stayed with her, and that she had learnt to love him, and so feels his wife's loss sorely.

Add. MS a/40/43-44 · Item · 8 Feb 1905-10 Feb 1905
Part of Additional Manuscripts a

43: 15 German Place, Brighton. - Cannot shed light on 'the inscription said to have been altered at the request of the Helmingham Rector''. Has written to ask his aunt Mrs T. Walker, who was 'at Helmingham a good deal in my father's time there'. Mr Groome was a friend of his father's; believes he was his own godfather

44: Regrets that his aunt Mrs Walker does not remember having heard anything about the memorial being altered.

Add. MS a/40/45 · Item · 2 Mar 1903
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Bardwell Rectory, Bury St. Edmunds. - Mrs Roundell's paper has been accepted, subject to slight alterations 'suggested by the heraldic and architectural experts... on our Literary Committee', and to photographs being permitted to be taken and reproduced of some of the Tollemache monuments in Helmingham church.