Item 80 - Letter from Leconflet to Henry Sidgwick

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Says that 'we have formed a committee to elevate a status to Alexis de Tocqueville. That the committee, which is composed of members of the Institute and the French parliament, wish to honour greatly eminent English persons, for which Tocqueville had much sympathy and admiration and esteem;. He says that they [have read] the excellent article which Sidgwick published in the Macmillan Magazine in 1865 [1861] and which contains an appreciation which is just and [ ] on our compatriots and we [ ] all particularly happy if Sidgwick would agree to [ ] accept their agreement in this excellent work. Talks about the defence of liberty and the honour Sidgwick's memoir gives. He hopes that Sidgwick will partake in their idea which is transmitted a favourable [ ].