Additional Manuscripts c

Announces that she has just finished reading Henry Sidgwick: A Memoir, and thanks NS again for giving it to her. Claims that, reading it' has been like living with old friends over again, and remarks on how HS' 'unique character shines out of that wonderful series of letters from early days to the patient givingup of all that life means in the last dozen....' Notes also that at the end he was not tired of life; that he wanted to live, and had NS by his side. Recalls HS at Mentone, 'and then throught the [ ] of years until that last pitiful sight of him in the nursing-home....' Suggests that the love he won from his friends was his best gift, and declares what good company he was. Claims to have a letter he wrote to her Katharine 'in the last weeks of her engagement to Charles Furse.' States that she has Katharine and her boys with her now. Reports that there is an exhibition of Charles' work at the Burlington Club Rooms in the following few weeks, and states that they will probably go to it.