Item 138/1 - Letter from Rt. Hon. John Morley to Henry Sidgwick

Assures Sidgwick that he was right not to hurry to answer his letter. Declares that he would like to have the article proposed by Sidgwick [for the Fortnightly Review], either for May, June, or any month that suits him, and tells him that he is welcome to write two articles of eighteen to twenty pages each, if he so wishes, as this would be preferable to one article of thirty pages. Regrets that he will not be in Cambridge this year. Refers to an enclosed letter from an employee of J.C. Newsom [included: 138/2], of which he says 'I'm afraid religious doubts have less to do with it, than want of sense.' Reports that he heard Sidgwick's 'first [ ] being exhausted', and remarks that 'at the critical moment when your too sensitive conscience made you afraid of "taking in" Macmillan'.