Stuk 92 - Letter from James Ward to Nora Sidgwick

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Thanks Nora for her note. Henry's rooms in Trinity College are to be cleared the following morning: he will go down there to see what papers there are. Assures her that everything can be safely left in his own rooms until she has time to give directions about them. Hopes that her fortnight's rest will do her good. Believes her to be 'one of those who realise that the very thing that makes a loss great makes it bearable.' Declares that the two men he has esteemed the most in the world were closely related to her [is the other her brother Arthur Balfour?], and remarks that the memories that she must have will sustain and strengthen her in the work she is still intent upon doing. Is very thankful to have known Henry: in some ways he shall 'miss him at every turn'; in others he feels that he is there.