The next is written in a clear and clerkly hand:
“Miss Jex-Blake, Ph.D.
Edinburgh.
Kinbuck, 7 February, 1871.
Madam,
We the undersigned desire to express our most sincere sympathy with your cause and earnest hopes for your success.
I am, Your obedient Servants,—”
Follows a list of four names, apparently of young business men. One wonders which of them conceived the bold idea of the “Ph.D.” How gladly they would have made it “M.D.” if they could!
The letter was addressed to “Miss Jex-Blake, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh,” and is grimly endorsed, “Not for Royal Infirmary.”
One more letter we are tempted to quote with very mingled feelings: