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Living in Skjolden does Wittgenstein good as it is not easy; work going very well; admits to being wrong about Spain.

5 St Mary's Passage - likes living out of college because his sister will join him soon, dreaming about her.

Alderley Park, Chelford, Cheshire.—Invites him to dine in London on Sunday. Is going to Tilstone Lodge tomorrow to hunt. Hopes he had fun in Spain. Sends birthday greetings.

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Alderley Park, Chelford, Cheshire
Feb 5th 1914

Will you dine on Sunday evening {1} if you are in London. If you get this before Saturday 3 P.M. send me a line or telegram to Tilstone Lodge, Tarporley, Cheshire, where I go tomorrow to hunt, till Saturday night.
I hope you can come. I hope you had fun in Spain.

Yrs
Venetia

Very many happy returns of tomorrow. Every wish for your ? year.

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{1} 8th.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 128 West Fourteenth Street, N. Y.

Miscellaneous material re meetings, conferences, policy statements, etc., some annotated by Frisch; includes a little MS material, notes taken at conferences, brief correspondence.

Villa Marie Louise, Nice. - Condolences on the death of Lady Houghton.

Admiralty. - On Spencer Perceval's dilemma over appointment to Chancellor of the Exchequer: Palmerston's own future prospects of office; 'Milnes would probably not take it unless his ambition got the better of his partiality for Canning & his aversion to Perceval, and, though a man of very brilliant talents, I should much doubt his steadiness'.

Copy in unidentified hand.

Containing notes on travels in Europe and the Near East.

1-93: letters to Nora Sidgwick about Henry Sidgwick's illness and death
94-133: miscellaneous correspondence and printed papers of Henry Sidgwick, many relating to the debate about compulsory Greek at Cambridge.
134-190: letters to Henry Sidgwick from his mother Mary
191-194: letters from Henry Sidgwick to Spencer Baynes regarding his article on ethics for the Encyclopædia Britannica

Written from Rome.

RJ wants to send WW some of his proofs - 'I expect to get 40 or 50 pages set up this week' [printing his lectures - see RJ to WW, 8 April 1845]. WW 'will see that although carefully avoiding controversy yet I am dwelling on elementary principles[.] I might state much more shortly if i had no secret reference to popular errors'. RJ is 'printing now however not for the world but fr a text book for the students only a kind of clean M.S.S. therefore and shall be able to take advantage when I do publish of any hints you may give me'. RJ is 'anxious about this same book of mine - yet I have a clear conviction that it will contain much truth fairly and legitimately got at and worked out and feel some confidence that it will make the next generation wiser if it does not this - I shall publish as soon as the production and distribution of wealth are compleated - as the distribution will include population and a digression on the incidence of taxes laid on articles consumed by the laborer which digression will be a deduction from the population part, why production and distribution will include 3 fourths of the whole work'. RJ will send WW 3 proof sheets next week.

2 Brook Street - Thanks WW for a copy of his work on English University education: 'The whole argument is strong, or I would say convincing - greatly needed, moreover, at this particular time, where we are surrounded by such novelties in speculation'. For instance HH's 'old acquaintance Hamilton [William Hamilton] (the Ed. Review) who even as a boy of 18 was besotted by the same spirit of vague and verbose speculations, which still governs his understanding'. HH's and WW's mutual friend Hallam [Henry Hallam] has lost his eldest daughter.

Postmarked Englefield Green. - Reusing an un-sent postcard, with a request to telescope some lines in the 'Earth, Earth' chorus [of "The Bride of Dionysus", see 7/100]; crossed through. Would be very effective if the soldiers' part of the 'O tomb of death' chorus could be antiphonal to that of the captives.

35 St Leonard's Terrace, Chelsea, S.W.3. - Very much liked Bob's poem [in the "New Statesman" about Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson]; was staying with Barry [Alfred Barratt Brown?] when it appeared, who read it out. They are coming [to Surrey?] tomorrow until Sunday night; asks if Bob is coming over; they will suggest going to the Allens' for tea on Sunday.

Westroad Corner, Cambridge - Examines the concept of the fall of man in Jewish thought.

West Hackhurst, Abinger Hammer, Dorking. - Asks when it would suit the Trevelyans either to come to lunch, which would delight his aunt, or for him to visit them.

Stocks, Tring; addressed to Elizabeth at Westcott, Dorking. - Can only catch the 12.55 train which arrives at Dorking at 2.10; should be there by 3; Jan [Janet Ward] can catch the 10.30, but he has some jobs in town he must do.

He and Bessie 'very distressed' to hear of Julian's accident; hopes it is not too painful; offers advice on observing pain 'as a unusual kind of sensation' in order to hope with it. Hopes that Julian will be able to visit them at the Shiffolds soon; may be able to come to him in London on Wednesday, but will call him in any case.

Thanks Flora for sending her verses, which are 'not doggerel; they are much too delicate and graceful for that, and have too much feeling'. Must be a 'very real recompense, to be able to call up the "pattern and the vision"... and still enjoy seeing it' though she no long tries to 'draw it'. Sorry he missed seeing her at the 'Maxes' [sic: Maxses?], who seem to have made themselves 'comfortably at home in Tillies cottage'; it is 'very pleasant having them as neighbours'.