Item 165 - Letter from Mary Sidgwick to Henry Sidgwick

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Add. MS c/101/165

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Letter from Mary Sidgwick to Henry Sidgwick

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  • 11 May 1865 (Creation)

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Sidgwick, Mary (d 1879), mother of Henry Sidgwick
(d 1879)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Explains that she was about to write to him the previous Tuesday morning when 'Arthur suddenly came in from the Racquet Court having had a terrible blow on his left eye....' Reports that Dr Sharp was sent for, who assured that the injury was not as serious as they thought, and states that Arthur has been improving ever since. Reports that Henry's Aunt H[enrietta] is there [at Rugby], and she plays to Arthur. States that the Masters are 'most kind about his work, which, for the most part is taken amongst them.'

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