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Footnotes

[1]. Appendix [A].

[2]. The paragraphs and brackets are the writer’s own.

[3]. Note the similarity of the name to her signature on p. [5]. Many a little girl has loved to imagine herself a fairy princess. It would be interesting to know whether any other ever dreamed of being a “Despotic Emperor.”

[4]. She would probably not have elected to be there on the morning when some imp induced Sophy to tip over a bench on to the row of girls kneeling in front of her.

[5]. She used to say that her intimate familiarity with the details of harnessing and all stable matters was due to the fact that when they were spending a holiday in the country her father allowed them to have a pony and trap on condition that, with the exception of actual grooming, the children managed it entirely themselves.

[6]. “I must tell you my experience,” writes Mrs. Jex-Blake to Dr. Lucy Sewall a quarter of a century later, “not my own practice, it was not the fashion of my day (and having lost my three eldest I was very anxious and fidgetty):—Where children are trusted and have a good deal of independence, and their tempers not fretted about little things, they grow up more open, confiding and trustworthy.”

[7]. She had her own little garden at Ramsgate.

[8]. Her brother had called at the school, immaculately dressed, and had behaved to the schoolmistress so charmingly that poor Sophy felt herself quite left out in the cold, and had doubtless responded with positive rudeness. What sort of visit was this from a beloved brother?

[9]. There is no other reference to the visit to Worthing.

[10]. From their earliest years the children were drilled in the virtue of economy. The references to the altering and letting-down of frocks, the calculation of pence for ribbon or frill, the careful computation of the length of time a pair of boots might be expected to last,—all these form instructive reading when one bears in mind the social position of the family and the large sums of money which the parents habitually gave away.

[11]. “Dec. 20th, 1859. Strange truth this: How already that hope has changed!”

[12]. This longing for rest was something deeper than the ordinary sentimentality of adolescence. She always said that by nature she was lazy, and the saying was not devoid of truth.

[13]. It was an interesting and typical stage in the development of women when a girl found it necessary to “go into hysterics” in order to convince her father of her right to an education.

[14]. See Mrs. Alec Tweedie’s interesting record of “The First College for Women.”

[15]. The reference is not to S. J.-B.’s own parents.

[16]. Life of Octavia Hill.

[17]. Life of Octavia Hill.

[18]. Miss Heaton.

[19]. By the charm of his personality, she means, of course; not by design.

[20]. Life of Octavia Hill.

[21]. Until circumstances rendered Miss Hill independent of such aid.

[22]. Dr. Southwood Smith, Miss Hill’s grandfather.

[23]. Miss Miranda Hill.

[24]. Poems by A. A. Procter.

[25]. The letter has not been preserved.

[26]. More than a year later Miss Hill wrote: “I wonder if it would be any comfort to you if you could know the infinite love the thought of you, specially of any pain of yours, calls up ... how passionately do I cling to a like trust in you that your pain may not be tenfold increased ... by any sense of desertion in spirit.... And yet, Sophy, this thought of me must fail you as time goes on, for you cannot see why I act as I do.... My love will be ready for you when He who is teaching us both shall bring us together again.”

[27]. Talking of the difficulties in the way of Practical Anatomy, someone had suggested that Miss Garrett should get ‘nice little subjects.’

[28]. Englishwoman’s Educational Union,—a society planned by S. J.-B., which should form a meeting ground for really qualified teachers, and also a means of registration.

[29]. Miss Miranda Hill’s loyalty and devotion to S. J.-B. never flagged.

[30]. Mrs. Jex-Blake writes about this time,—“I feel such a real sympathy for the English teacher—Lucy Snow—it is quite a pity you haven’t it with you—I think your Institut and the Park and Ducal Palace tally very well with Villette. Fortunately you have no male tyrant like Monsieur Paul,—do you remember Miss Lucie being locked into an attic, with beetles, a rat, and possibly a ghost:—to learn in a few hours a part in a play?”

[31]. The account is really written some weeks later, as there was great delay in the arrival of the box in which she had packed her diary.

[32]. The building had originally been a monastery.

[33]. She did not always find this quite so easy. On October 17th she writes in her diary:[diary:] “Being all but late this morning, it is decreed that for one week from this time S. J-B. rises every morning while the stroke of the half hour and minute hand are ‘one and the same straight line.’

“Now, Resolution:”

It is scarcely necessary to say that Resolution responded to the appeal.

[34]. “I an’t just. There’s a fact. I’m sorry for it, but it’s true. As my sky is bluer or greyer, as I see, or think I see, more or less into a child’s character, the scale varies. Justice is blind no longer, but gives a chuck to one side or the other.”

[35]. Mr. Morse had unwittingly given her some encouragement previously by telling the story of a candidate for Orders, who when asked “If any man broached before you doubts of the divinity of our Lord (‘and I needn’t tell you,’ said Mr. Morse to S. J.-B., ‘what a difficult subject that is’) what answer would you make?”

“My Lord, I beg that you won’t suppose that I keep such company.”[company.”]

“Well, but if——?”

“My Lord, I should take up my hat and walk out.”

“(Prudent too),” comments S. J.-B.

[36]. Appendix [B].

[37]. See inter alia Whittier’s poem, “The Prophecy of Samuel Sewall, 1697.”

[38]. It was only for a very brief period of her life that S. J.-B. would have called herself by this name.

[39]. The reference is probably to the reply of Wilberforce when asked whether in his struggle for the emancipation of the slaves, he was not neglecting his own soul,—“I had forgotten that I had a soul.”

[40].

“But thou wouldst not alone

Be saved, my father! alone

Conquer and come to thy goal,

Leaving the rest in the wild.

* * * * *

... to thee it was given

Many to save with thyself;

And, at the end of the day,

O faithful shepherd! to come,

Bringing thy sheep in thy hand.”

[41]. The Schools Inquiry Commission, presumably.

[42]. Appendix [C.]

[43]. As early as June, 1866, she had written to Dr. Sewall:—“I am glad you are pleased with prospects as to the College; but, however good you may get it to be, take notice (if I study at all) I don’t mean to graduate at any Woman’s College,—on principle,—or else for vanity and ambition sake,—which is it?” Whichever it was, there can be no doubt as to the soundness of the decision, but she little guessed what that decision was to cost.

[44]. Miss Susan Dimock was a student of great promise who afterwards completed her education at Zurich. She was lost at sea in the wreck of the steamer Schiller in May 1875.

[45]. Some few intimate friends will recall the evenings, 30 or 40 years later, round the study fire at Windydene, when the white-haired woman would recite Sir Launfal from beginning to end with a subdued enthusiasm that was more expressive than pages of commentary.

[46]. The dog was named Turk, and became a devoted friend.

[47]. “Slightly” is interpolated in the original letter.

[48]. “By the way your accounts of your dress are just a shade contradictory,” writes Miss Du Pre somewhat later. “One day you tell me you look disreputable and plunge me into depths of anxiety! and the next you say you are ‘very tidy.’ Isn’t this more than average inconsistency?”

[49]. After Miss Garrett had obtained her diploma, the Society of Apothecaries passed a resolution forbidding students henceforth to receive any part of their education privately, thus making it impossible even for a woman of means to follow in her steps.

[50]. To the irreparable loss of the women students, Sir James Simpson died in the spring of the following year.

[51]. As Physiology was Dr. Bennett’s speciality, the admission was worth having.

[52]. It must be borne in mind that at this time the question was before the Professors of the Medical Faculty only.

[53]. “Walking in Darkness.”

[54]. This suggestion had been made to her by one of the legal professors.

[55]. “Tell me everything that happens,” writes Miss Du Pre about this time, “so that I may not lose the thread of your history. I think I know most of the people’s names now, and should not require much explanation. You need not tell me in every letter that Sir A. Grant is the Principal. I’ll try to remember that fact.”

[56]. Daily Review, Aug. 5, 1870.

[57]. “Strangely” when compared with the families of her contemporaries. “When I told Mamma I had got my certificate,” said a former fellow-student, “she said ‘Have you?’ When I told Uncle, he said ‘What good is it?’ When I told Emily, she said, ‘I am very glad to hear it, but I am very much surprised.’”

[58]. Money borrowed from Mrs. Jex-Blake was refunded as strictly as if it had been borrowed from a banker.

[59]. Brit. Med. Journal, April 16th, 1870.

[60]. The words in brackets were omitted from the resolution, but introduced in the speech supporting it.

[61]. The Times, April 25th, 1870.

[62]. April 27th, 1870.

[63]. April 23rd, 1870.

[64]. Appendix [D].

[65]. Afterwards Sir Patrick Heron Watson.

[66]. June 18th, 1870.

[67]. Not to be confused with Dr. Hughes Bennett, who had lectured to the women on Physiology.

[68]. Lancet, July 9, 1870.

[69]. This is a neutral and harmless paraphrase of the arguments some of the professors actually used in talking to the students, but one does not want to perpetuate the memory of words used in an angry conflict.

[70]. The Courant, Nov. 19, 1870.

[71]. One hopes this fact was incorrectly reported; it has never been contradicted. Possibly the Professor was annoyed at being asked to effect that by force which could safely be confided to the gentlemanly feeling of his students.

[72]. In January, 1886, Mr. Robert Wilson had an article, “Æsculapia Victrix,” in the Fortnightly Review.

[73]. Spectator, December 3, 1870.

[74]. Someone has pointed out that she was the first woman to speak in St. Giles’ Church since Jenny Geddes threw her stool at the minister.

[75]. At a later date (1872) the Church Review became definitely friendly.

[76]. Scotsman, January 3, 1871.

[77]. January 5, 1871.

[78]. “God bless the Massons,” writes Mrs. Jex-Blake, “for cheering my darling on Christmas Day.”

[79]. Scotsman, May 31, 1871.

[80]. The amount claimed—£1000—was only specified when the case came into Court, having been inadvertently omitted from the issue.

[81]. Edinburgh Evening Courant, June 1, 1871.

[82]. “Of course, as you know, I daresay,” writes Professor Jack to S. J.-B. about this time, “all the articles that appear in the Herald are mine, and especially the good ones.”

[83]. Mrs. Hill Burton, Rev. Professor Calderwood, Treasurer Colston, J. R. Findlay, Esq., David Greig, Esq., Mrs. Hope of Drylaw, Miss Agnes M‘Laren, Mrs. Nichol, Admiral Sir W. Ramsay, K.C.B., Miss L. Stevenson, and R. S. Wyld, Esq.

[84]. “If you, as the honoured and trusted representative of us working women, are insulted for us all, the grosser the insult, the more secure you must be of sympathy and gratitude from increasing multitudes of individuals, and of the adoption of our cause as a practical aim by the best part of society in our day.”

[85]. Miss Louisa Stevenson and Mrs. Henry Kingsley had kindly undertaken to be Hon. Treasurers of the fund.

[86]. It is interesting to note that at this time almost all public-spirited women thought the suffrage would be granted before the right to a medical education. They had so nearly got it more than once! “You will accomplish nothing,” S. J-B. was sometimes told, “until we get the vote.” And one is grimly amused to find her expressing a serious fear that the suffrage may be granted before she has had an opportunity of hearing her friend, Miss M‘Laren, speak in support of it. She need have entertained no undue apprehension on this score.

[87]. The name by which Miss Louisa Stevenson was affectionately known in the little circle.

[88]. Mr. Charles M‘Laren (now Lord Aberconway) and Mr. Walter M‘Laren were of the party.

[89]. Clerk of the University.

[90]. The dates of these three letters are correctly given. They were all delivered by hand.

[91]. Lancet, November 4, 1871.

[92]. “The Court find it inexpedient at present to rescind the said resolutions and regulations, and therefore decline to give effect to the decision of the Senatus. The Court must not be understood as indicating by this deliverance any opinion as to the claims of women to proceed to graduation, or as to the power of the University to confer on women degrees in the Faculty of Medicine.” Commd. by direction of the University Court. J. Christison, W.S., Sec.

[93]. The following scrap has been inadvertently preserved. There is not even any certain indication to whom it is addressed:

“When I came into the Anatomical room and saw you sitting there dissecting, I was overpowered,—utterly conquered. When I spoke to you and you looked up at me to answer, the look you gave me was the coup de mort!—I determined then in my own mind to seek you for my wife....

But to see you as you were then with your superlative beauty, working so bravely, so sensibly,—all fashion, frivolity and folly cast aside,—was to me so new, so strange and so admirable a sight, that on considering and re-considering it, I don’t wonder at myself for flinging aside ordinary prudence to make a snatch at a jewel of such unusual brilliancy.”

It is almost disappointing to reflect that the recipient of this tribute was not equally prepared to “fling aside ordinary prudence.”

[94]. It was at this Christmas season that Miss Miranda Hill sent to her old friend, in the form of a brooch, a “winged Victory,”—meaning, she said, “many things,”—“the victory of a stedfast noble purpose over outward obstacles, of love over time.”

[95]. “Ring out the grief that saps the mind,” is Tennyson’s line. S. J.-B.’s version needs no explanation.

[96]. January 29, 1872.

[97].

“Believe and venture! as for pledges,

The gods give none.”

[98]. Miss Massingberd Mundy was one of the junior students who did not go on to graduation, but her gaiety and humour made her a real acquisition to the little circle in the trying days.

[99]. S. J.-B. appealed to Sir Robert Anstruther; and there is a businesslike note from Lady Anstruther, asking for a very brief summary of all the main events,—just the thing that only S. J.-B. could supply.

The matter was brought forward in Aug. 1872, on Sir Robert Anstruther’s behalf, by Sir D. Wedderburn, see below.

[100]. In addition to these six, Professor Fleeming Jenkin and Professor Cosmo Innes removed their names from the list of defenders.

[101]. Professor Hodgson was a recent addition to the professorial staff, and a great asset to the women’s cause.

[102]. As a matter of fact a number of students came—unasked—to serve as stewards.

[103]. See S. J.-B.’s letter to Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, pp. 356-7.

[104]. See p. [260].

[105]. The following is a fair average specimen of the cordiality with which the book was received:—“So convincing is the argument, so obvious the conclusions to which it leads up, that one fairly wonders, after putting down the essay in which they are enforced, how it should have come to pass in this nineteenth century that it should be necessary for any such essay to be written.”—Liverpool Mercury.

[106]. Mr. Stansfeld was President of the Local Government Board.

[107]. To visit the friend who had been ill.

[108]. See extract from Lancet, p. 319.

[109]. See Huxley’s Life, i. 387.

[110]. The previous letter has not been found.

[111]. Lord Provost.

[112]. “... And now a flood of memories of sweet Windydene brings tears to my eyes. No fear there of rowdy ricsha coolies in a narrow alley quarrelling over the right of way—nor rattle of carriages with their annoying official bell ‘Clear the way’ up to 2 a.m.—but just silent peace. My heaven will certainly have to be silence for a space. But Windydene contains ... and the Doctor, and I remember talks over the drawing-room fire, and those incomparable evenings in the Doctor’s Study, and as these thoughts make one both weepy and sentimental, I had better stop.” Extract from a letter from Dr. Lillie Saville, Tientsin, Jan. 7th, 1911.

[113]. Appendix [E].

[114]. “In this case, as in most others, those who say they want a thing must put their own shoulders to the wheel in order to obtain it, and must be prepared to back the soundness of their opinions. If only twenty women annually could be added to the ranks of the medical profession in this country, the expediency of the addition would be speedily removed from the domain of controversy, and the expression, ‘Solvitur ambulando,’ which Mrs, Anderson calls an adage, would be applicable to the case.”

Times, August 23rd, 1873.

[115]. Appendix [F].

[116]. Lord Houghton was President of the Congress. In a letter to his wife, dated October 3rd, 1873, he says, “Miss Jex-Blake and Mrs. Grey both spoke capitally.” Lord Houghton’s Life, vol. ii. p. 281.

[117]. “Medical Women,” by the Right Hon. James Stansfeld, M.P., Nineteenth Century, July, 1877.

[118]. Mr. Lowe’s advocacy was strengthened by a fine memorial presented to him at this time by 471 graduates of the University of London, praying that the benefits of the University should be extended to women. This memorial was secured through the exertions of Dr. Alfred Shewen.

[119]. “I was very much troubled by your last letter,” wrote Dr. Sewall a month later, “for the idea of your beginning to practise without a diploma seems to me such a mistake. It appears to me that by practising illegally in that way, you will be giving up all you have been fighting for, and will be opening a way that some women who have not studied thoroughly may use; and there will be no way of your showing the public the difference between your qualifications.”

[120]. To the Headmastership of Rugby.

[121]. Sir David Wedderburn did not offer himself for re-election.

[122]. We must never forget that a minority of doctors had been helpful all along. Years before this a petition to Parliament in favour of the women had been signed by nearly two hundred.

[123]. The Memorial had been originally addressed to Gladstone.

[124]. “A Bill to Remove Doubts as to the Powers of the Universities of Scotland to admit Women as Students, and to grant Degrees to Women.”

[125]. Mrs. Thorne on her return tried to dissuade S. J.-B. from making the attempt; but, on finding how much had been done, she gladly coöperated in raising funds.

[126]. The name was afterwards changed to Handel Street, and then to Hunter Street.

[127]. The house S. J.-B. had taken as her private residence.

[128]. To the great loss of the medical women—as to many besides—Dr. Anstie died suddenly on September 12th.

[129]. Miss Bertha Cordery, now Mrs. S. R. Gardiner.

[130]. A very true friend was Lord Aberdare. Here is a delightful letter written a few months later:

“Glen Tulchan, Advie, N.B.

June 23. 1877.

Dear Miss Jex-Blake,—I yield to your request—an annual subscription of £10. 10s. for 5 years, including the present—but with the same Caveat which St. Peter made to Pope Gregory when he prayed that that virtuous heathen Trajan might be admitted into Paradise viz ‘that you make no more such requests.’ For I find extreme difficulty in refusing applications for so good a work, and my ‘engagements’ are heavy. By this post I must send a reluctant refusal to the hardworking promoter of an excellent work.

Ever sincerely Yours,

Aberdare.”

[131]. The following interesting letter shows that Sir James Paget’s attitude at this time was not that of a partisan but of a just man:

“1, Harewood Place,

Hanover Square, W.

Feb 26. 1877.

Dear Mr. Stansfeld,

I intend to go, if possible, to the Meeting of the University Senate on Wednesday that I may vote against hindering the entrance of Women into the Medical Profession. I think them sadly mistaken in wishing for it, but I see no sufficient grounds on which they can justly or usefully be excluded.

Believe me most truly yours,

James Paget.

The Rt. Honble. James Stansfeld, M.P.”

[132]. This letter may probably have been written to Mr. Stansfeld.

[133]. In later years, as Dean, Mrs. Anderson did much for the enlargement and development of the School.

[134]. Nineteenth Century, July 1877.

[135]. We hear of her visiting the Middlesex, Moorfields, the Royal Free, the Cancer, and the Children’s Hospitals.

[136]. For the same reason she went but seldom to the theatre, unless an actor whom she greatly admired visited Edinburgh. When Henry Irving was there she would go as often as three times a week, and usually take a little party of friends. Louis XI. was, in her opinion, his masterpiece. For Miss Terry she had, like all the rest of the world, a great admiration. Of Ristori she used to speak almost with bated breath.

[137]. The three mentioned above, together with Dr. Peel Ritchie. In later years, of course, she would have added to the list,—notably the names of Dr. (Sir Thomas) Clouston and Mr. C. W. Cathcart.

[138]. The invaluable Alice had retired from service to join a sister in Wales. She and her mistress continued to correspond till the end.

[139]. In place of the “coachman”; she never had both.

[140]. This was probably not the occasion of which she writes in her diary,—“S. J.-B. made very nice speech in moving vote of thanks,—only forgot to thank much!”

[141]. This was the celebrated visit to contest the County of Midlothian,—a “triumphal procession”!

[142]. It was not till later—not perhaps till she saw that regrettable number of Fors Clavigera that S. J.-B. had any clear idea what the trouble was.

[143]. Dr. Agnes M‘Laren had taken the house adjoining S. J.-B.’s.

[144]. She was working at the solubility of fats, and the ether fumes were supposed to have proved insidiously poisonous.

[145]. “Poor Child.”

[146]. This house is now the picturesque nucleus of the Edinburgh Hospital for Women and Children.

[147]. S. J.-B. made great friends with the birds in her garden, and cats were accordingly taboo.

[148]. S. J.-B. and Miss Du Pre had visited the same hotel that summer.

[149]. “Ah,” said an old servant in later years. “We did see life in that house!”

[150]. “On est prié de ne rien donner aux domestiqúes.”

[151]. Medical Women, by Sophia Jex-Blake, M.D. Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier. The book has long been out of print, but, as a storehouse of facts, it is largely drawn upon by all writers on the subject, including the author of the present volume.

[152]. S. J.-B. never had a more loyal and devoted helper than the first secretary of the School, Miss Janet Black.

[153]. The adjective is applied to her by Charles Reade in The Woman Hater.

[154]. The Marquis of Bute and Sir Colin Scott Moncrieff (Under Secretary for Scotland) are among the best-known names in the company of those who did their best to help her.

[155]. The “distinguished historian” of course refers to Miss Cordery herself.

[156]. Dr. Edith Pechey had married Mr. H. M. Phipson of Bombay.

[157]. The quotation is from Miss Louisa Stevenson’s speech in presenting the address.

[158]. “I took her to see the pixies,” writes S. J.-B. to a friend, in June, “I don’t think she did see any, but she greatly enjoyed the woods, etc.”

[159]. Steps towards Reunion. The book had been put on the Index Expurgatorius.

[160]. At that time very few women had come into the front rank as surgeons.

[161]. Her old fellow student, Dr. Annie Clark, who had graduated with her at Berne, came from Birmingham to give the anaesthetic.

[162]. Miss Miranda Hill died in June 1910.

[163]. By a strange coincidence she lies within a few yards of her old friend and champion, Sir James Stansfeld. See Appendix [G].

[164]. See The London Gazette, Friday, August 25, 1837.

[165]. The authors have sought to supply a want, more or less widely felt, of simple Tracts, which, while endeavouring to set forth the deepest truths of Christianity, shall avoid the phraseology of certain schools, as jarring on the minds of many.

Those who see any degree of successful effort in the Tracts already published are invited to assist in obtaining for them, and others of the series, such a circulation as may best ensure their usefulness.

[166]. S. J.-B. was thinking mainly of Dr. Heron Watson and Dr. G. W. Balfour.

[167]. The passage has already been quoted, pp. 396-7.

Transcriber’s Note

The author most commonly abbreviates her subject’s name as ‘S. J.-B.’, but frequently neglects to punctuate it consistently. These lapses have been corrected, with no further notice here. Likewise, lapses in punctuation of the Index have been silently rectified.

Other errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and are noted here.

The many nested quotations result in some inconsistencies in punctuation, resulting in missing or seemingly superfluous quotation marks. Corrections were made if the voice or context seems to warrant them, and otherwise are simply noted below. The quoted passages typically begin and end with double quotation marks, but interior paragraphs do not follow the convention of opening each with a quotation.

On p. 255, a misprint seems to have disrupted the word ‘about’ as ‘a bo’. The correction makes sense, but is speculative.

In the Index, in the first column of p. 583, the entry for Mr. Robert Somerville is missing a page reference. The sole reference to Mr. Somerville occurred on p. 498, and that has been added to the text.

The entry for ‘Miss Wolstenholme’ refers the reader to ‘Mrs. Wolstenholme Elmy’; however, the Index contains no such entry. Elizabeth Wolstenholme-Elmy was an English suffragist and writer, who is referred to twice in the text on pp. [284] and [381].

The entry for ‘A Visit to Some American Schools and Colleges’ mistakenly refers the reader to Part I. Chapter XXIII. This has been corrected to Chapter XIII.

The references are to the page and line in the original. Those with three numbers refer to the line within the designated note on that page. A prefix of ‘i’ indicates that this is an index page, and that the second number refers to the column on that page.

[21.7]“Now for a word about the ‘bowing,’[”] he saysAdded.
[21.8][‘/“]It is of no importance in itself,Replaced.
[24.26]and may be long i[s/n] showing fruitReplaced.
[57.10]‘Yes, ma’am ma’am[.]’Added.
[58.28]did not much admire me, I guess, that night.[”]Added.
[60.17]unless you want to see it.[’]Added.
[63.7]‘Which faith except..., etc.’[”]Added.
[63.21][“]M. brought me an inviteAdded.
[74.32]Feb. 11, 1865![”]Added.
[97.21]makest me to dwell in safety.[’]”Added.
[101.39]and have felt most solemnly[,/.]Replaced.
[107.3]I was so annoyed[./,]—it seemed so sillyReplaced.
[111.40]May 9th. [“]We do well to struggleAdded.
[115.3]for which I am looking so earnestly....[’]Removed.
[119.20]Yours affectly, S. L. J.-B.[”]Added.
[119.32]It’s so weak, it can’t do harm that way.[’]Added.
[131.33.2]she writes in her diary[!/:]Replaced.
[135.16]and here, perhaps, the answer.[’]”Added.
[138.4]the girls’ progress,[”] ought to comfort me there,Removed.
[145.33]by the doubt and co[m/n]temptReplaced.
[154.35.6]I keep such company.[’/”]Replaced.
[157.18]when I am next in the North.[”]Added.
[164.26]we got on grandly....[”]Added.
[167.6]all connection of time and place.[”]Added.
[167.18]not a bad church, will it be?[”]Added.
[167.38]so wonderfully, bewitchingly, grandly [beautifully] as this.sic
[174.35][“]Dec. 15th. I have just begunAdded.
[180.17]if not of the conquerors.[”]Added.
[180.32]Well done America and L. E. S.!—bless her.[”]Added.
[181.40]to run close to practical atheism....[”]Added.
[191.41]C. E. Brown-S[e/é]quard.Replaced.
[192.10][“]Dr. A. ‘not afraid of responsibilityAdded.
[203.43]with the old Mother.[”]Added.
[205.16]Wasn’t I right?...[”]Added.
[205.39]you can read and forward respect[t]ivelyRemoved.
[234.41]if possible before Simpson goes.Removed.
[243.15]of what things we have need.’[”]Removed.
[246.37][“]I am so glad that you are prospering so wellRemoved.
[255.25]and told him I was studyi[m/n]g MedicineReplaced.
[255.39]spend some money Speculation.
[256.6]and to University Court July 5th.[”]Added.
[257.39]let me not prejudge what is best.[’]Added.
[258.17][“/‘]Unlucky to say so!’Replaced.
[260.30]the resolution of the Un[vei/ive]rsity CourtTransposed.
[260.32]by the Chancellor on November 12th[,/.]Replaced.
[289.35]Pa[rt/tr]ick Heron Watson.Transposed.
[293.20]he’ll be hitting a policeman![’]Added.
[321.27]the noble strug[g]le she is makingAdded.
[333.41]thrown back in their professional studiesRemoved.
[335.8]time to call a mee[e]ting.Removed.
[341.27]your conscience will prevent your sleeping!’[”]Added.
[374.25]Thanks for your kind letter[.]Added.
[376.9]of your prof[f]essionRemoved.
[379.19][“]It is just a year since we partedAdded.
[383.30]although I [I ]expect he thoughtRemoved.
[448.14][“]So much better than I.”Removed.
[449.7]the personal charm, intelligen[e/c]e and humourReplaced.
[464.2][‘/“]Why do you recommend Vermouth?”Replaced.
[469.16]to those who suffer young[’]Added.
[509.29]to admit women forthwith to graduation in medicine[.]Added.
[511.29][“]Dr. —— and Dr. —— [the consultants] have been hereAdded.
[514.6]a removal to larger premises[,/.]Replaced.
[546.15]specially to the “people of God[.”/”?]Replaced.
[i566.1.51]Brown-S[e/é]quard, Professor, 191.Replaced.
[i568.2.28](Mrs. Hil[l]house) was giving himRemoved.