Zone d'identification
Cote
Add. MS c/93/6
Titre
Letter from Lord Acton to Henry Sidgwick
Date(s)
- 21 Nov. 1896 (Production)
Niveau de description
Pièce
Étendue matérielle et support
1 doc
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
(1838-1900)
Histoire archivistique
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
Plans for the writing and publishing of a general modern history ['in many volumes'] to be entitled the Cambridge Modern History. Asks Sidgwick to contribute a chapter on the philosophers of the seventeenth century, and gives details of its desired structure. Asks for recommendations for an author of a chapter on the scientific ideas 'of the present age'.