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Add. MS c/95/110 · Item · 11 Mar 1890
Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Mentions that in their list of names for the Dictionary [of National Biography] is Arthur Holmes, who was Sidgwick's contemporary at Cambridge. States that he knew him, but is unable to find any account of his life. Asks Sidgwick to tell him where anread more

Stephen, Sir Leslie (1832-1904), knight, author and literary critic
Add. MS c/99/2 · Item · [4 Jan 1856]
Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Thanks her for the cheque for £10, and undertakes to do his best with regard to the circulars. Reports that he has gone through just half of his examinations 'perhaps as well as [he] expected altogether; better in the Mathematics so far, but a miserableread more

TRER/12/354 · Item · 9 July 1923
Part of Papers of Robert Calverley Trevelyan and Elizabeth Trevelyan

Wallington, Cambo, Morpeth. - Thanks for Robert and Elizabeth's letters [about Julian's school report]; liked the report from the athletics master, although he did not entirely understand it; used to be 'content with the girth of the chest, and of theread more

Add. MS c/93/41 · Item · [Summer 1858]
Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Refers to Sidgwick being in Scotland, and to the fact that Tawney is there with him. Reports that he wrote to [Edmund Henry or Frederic Horatio] Fisher, 'telling him of matters [Sidgwick] could naturally be interested in hearing about'. Regrets hisread more

Bowen, Edward Ernest (1836-1901), schoolmaster
Add. MS c/104/57 · Item · 1 Mar 1905
Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Having returned from a Wellington College meeting, he finds that he has so much to do that he is unable to attend Mr Freshfield's lecture, but it was kind of Nora to have given him the opportunity. Remarks that since Henry won the Craven Scholarship inread more

Butler, Henry Montagu (1833-1918), college head