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Add. MS c/94/140
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Letter from Rt. Hon. John Morley to Henry Sidgwick
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- 3 May 1877 (Creation)
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1 doc
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(1838-1923)
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Refers to an enclosed cheque [not included], which he sends with gratitude. Informs him that his 'Socrates or anything else' will be welcome. Refers to the 'rage and fury in the Whig tea-cup at Gladstone's resolutions'. Mentions that he breakfasted with the latter that morning, 'and found him wholly absorbed in an eager controversy with a learned [not odious] Jew pundit as to the [comparative] sense of colour-differences in ancient times.