July 27.
Dear Miss Jex-Blake,
Allow me to congratulate you most heartily on the decision of Lord Gifford, which establishes the rights of the lady students at Edinburgh.
I will do what I can to get your interesting little book noticed in the Lancet.
I do hope that the Conservative party in the profession will now have the sense to give way with a good grace.
Believe me, dear Miss Jex-Blake,
Yours very truly,
Francis Ed. Anstie.”
The next is in the shaky handwriting of an invalid:
“My Darling,