Item 48 - Letter from William Ridgeway to Henry Sidgwick

Expresses his gratitude to Sidgwick for helping them to find a chemist to fill the chair. In relation to the [Solonian] Classification, reports that he has '[some notions], but not sufficiently clear.' Refers to the Polity of Athens [by Pseudo-Xenophon] in relation to the Solonian Classes. Claims to have found 'a most important piece of evidence form the statement of Solon's reform of the coinage and weights', and believes that when 'all the fuss about the text and [Kenyon]'s blunders is over', they may get some 'good new stuff' out of it. Reports that he got the [ ] on which the Census of the Solonian Constitution was based, and claims that 'it is not land as Mommsen supposed on the analogy of the Hide, but Cattle, as at Syracuse in the time of Dionysius.'