(The photographs are placed side-by-side to form a single panoramic image.)
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Trinity College | Cambridge
March 22d {1} | '73
Dear Professor Humphry,
Let me thank you for the honour which you have done to my office in proposing to me to be a member of the Committee for preparing a memorial to Professor Sedgwick {2}. I shall be happy to render any assistance in my power to carrying out the object proposed.
Yrs vy truly {3}
B F Westcott
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{1} The second figure is indistinct.
{2} Adam Sedgwick had died on 27 January.
{3} This line is indistinct.
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Farringford, Freshwater, Isle of Wight
April 4th 1873
Sir,
I beg to enclose a cheque for 10£ if I may be allowed to offer this small contribution to the Sedgwick Memorial.
I have the honour to be
Your very obedient servant
A Tennyson
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Grove Lodge | Cambridge
7 Oct. 1896
Dear Sir,
I wish to thank you very sincerely for your kind and welcome letter of sympathy {1}.
I hope you are having fair health and enjoying your leisure.
Yours faithfully
A. P. Humphrey
Mr H. Coggin
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Black-edged paper.
{1} The writer's father, Sir G. M. Humphry, had died at his home, Grove Lodge, on 24 September.
4 leaves of a diary.
Opening of the letter is preceded by a poem of 7 verses by Robert Leslie Ellis dated 12 Jan. 1848.
He admits that Columbus' egg is a myth. Discusses the relationship of obtuseness or acuteness of sides to obtuse and acute angles in a spherical triangle and proposes a theorem; has found nothing in the literature of the affections of oblique triangles. Accompanied by a drawing of a [spherical triangle?] with the note, "Yours came in after I had written the above. You are right, as here appears."