Papers of William Kingdon Clifford

(Place of writing not indicated.) Thanks her for her long letter, 'all along of my telling you about my Sunday talks', and for sending him the Gibbon. Has secured 'miladi' [Lady Pollock] and Moss to go with them to the play tomorrow. Dr Corfield is going with him to inspect the house on Thursday. Has asked his agent whether, if he takes it for three or more years, the proprietor will either decrease the rent or let his holding commence at Christmas. Mrs Sitwell wants them to go to tea with her after his lecture on Sunday [possibly 'Body and Mind', at the Sunday Lecture Society, 1 November 1874]; she has been working 'like a slave' at the working women's college. Her letter made him very happy; 'it is quite clear we only want to understand each other to agree on everything that is important....You can't conceive how lonely I have felt since I lost the only mind that had really grown up with my own [G. R. Crotch, who died on 16 June 1874]'. Discusses in detail his views on Christianity.