Item 37 - Letter from Shadworth H. Hodgson to Henry Sidgwick

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Thanks Sidgwick for having sent him his Methods of Ethics, which he found on his return from a Christmas break in Lincoln. Admits to only having glanced at the book, but hopes to give it a more in-depth reading in the near future. Claims to be 'more fully occupied with general speculative questions...than ethical ones' at the present. Notes that there are passages in Sidgwick's book 'which contest views [he has] hitherto strongly held', and predicts that it will require some effort on his part to re-open question which he thought to have settled in his own mind. Asks if he had informed Sidgwick that Mr Bo[u]lton was elected 'at the Metaphysical [Society meeting] last time'.