Additional Manuscripts c

Refers to a passage in a letter in Henry Sidgwick: A Memoir, which, he claims, 'seems to have been written under a slight misapprehension.' States that HS 'not unnaturally supposed that he had been summarily passed over for a junior, and former pupil.' Claims that it was 'not quite so abrupt as this'. Explains that the then Vice Chancellor, Dr Perowne, had firstly offered the post to him [Venn], and he claimed that he could not accept it and considered that no one but HS ought to be appointed. States that Perowne explained that 'as he was choosing a deputy for Mr B[irks] he could not [ ] select any one whose opinions were so entirely opposed to his.' Claims that he again declined the post, and thinks that it was then offered to Keynes. States that the offer to Cunningham 'was therefore not so abrupt as may have been supposed.'