Comprises (3/1, fols. 1-48) letters from William Sidgwick (Mrs. E.W. Benson's father) to his mother, Mary, and Mary Crofts (later his wife), 1829-38, with (fols 11-12) a letter from his cousin James, 1830. Subjects include: (fols. 3-14) his travels with James to Paris, Torino, Genoa, Rome, Naples, Venice, Berne, the Black Forest and Rotterdam (fols. 5-48) his early career as curate…