Enjoyed his 'Desert Island Discs' episode; is sorry to hear of the unsatisfactory call to the Prudential; Merry Christmas.
Expresses his and his wife's 'most heartfelt sympathy' on the death of Henry Sidgwick. Refers to his [Breul's] days as a student in Berlin, where he heard 'Dr Sidgwick's' name often mentioned in relation to the study of ethics. Claims that since then he has looked on him as 'a great scholar and the leading English moral philosopher', and when he came to Cambridge he 'soon learned to admire him equally as a man.' States that he will never forget the great kindness the Sidgwick's have always shown to him and his wife.
Sin títuloThe numbered papers are a.34, a.16-a.19, a.22.
With description of painting of the Thames from Battersea, bought by Samuel Courtauld in 1946.
32 Manchester Road, Huddersfield. - Sorry Milnes cannot attend soirée on 6 March: had hoped to introduce him to Rev. Edmund Roberts Larken, translator of George Sand's Miller [of Angibault]. Met Emerson at Manchester last Sunday and heard him read a paper on Plato; hopes to meet Milnes one day.
Labelled 1939 by Julia Fish. Made up of constituency correspondence, Foreign Office papers including views of Duke of Buccleuch, printed record by Halifax of events of Aug-Sept and notes by RAB on same period, personal papers, description of life at Stanstead Hall, character studies of Halifax and Sir Horace Wilson [also in F80]
Sends copies of Edgeworth's Mathematical Psychics and his own memoir of Edgeworth for presentation to the Commercial University of Milan or the University of Cagliari. Edgeworth was impressed by an article by Sraffa which he wanted translated into English.
Congratulations on engagement.