Identificatie
referentie code
Add. MS c/93/6
Titel
Letter from Lord Acton to Henry Sidgwick
Datum(s)
- 21 Nov. 1896 (Vervaardig)
Beschrijvingsniveau
Stuk
Omvang en medium
1 doc
Context
Naam van de archiefvormer
(1838-1900)
archiefbewaarplaats
Geschiedenis van het archief
Directe bron van verwerving of overbrenging
Inhoud en structuur
Bereik en inhoud
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'.