Item 3 - Letter from Thomas Clifford Allbutt to Nora Sidgwick

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Writes on the death of Henry Sidgwick, the news of which, he claims, was a great shock to him and a great source of sorrow. Refers to the death of Frank Balfour as 'a loss to the University which has never been repaired.' States that in Henry Cambridge University has lost 'one whose qualities were singularly valuable to her', and refers to his contribution to the study of philosophy. Suggests that the few obituary notices of Henry that he has read 'must have been written by persons who did not know [him] personally', lacking as they are in references to 'his personal charm [and] his delightful wit and humour'. Relates that in the Erasmus Society for the last seven or eight years he saw Henry 'intimately and conceived for him that affectionate regard which he won from all who were thus privileged to know him.' Sends also the sympathies of his wife.