[The dear old Mother, with the sword in her heart!]
“I am getting on so nicely here. I hope you will not have any lawyers to consult with about other pressing matters, nor articles to write when you take up study for April. I shall like to know when you begin (probably not till February) that I may ask help where it is promised to be given. I hope my darling has a little breathing time now, and will take every care of herself, as I will of her baby.
Ever your loving Mummy,
Maria Emily Jex-Blake.
It is best for me to write little.”
Henry J. Wells 1862
Emery Walker ph. sc.
Maria Emily Jex-Blake
from a drawing in chalks by H. T. Wells R.A. 1862
Meanwhile enquiries poured in on every side. The following paragraph appeared in a well-known Weekly:
“The question of the admission of Women to medical degrees in Edinburgh University has been rather unexpectedly solved, at least for the present. Miss Jex-Blake, a foremost champion of the movement, has actually been ‘plucked’ in her examination and sent back to complete her scientific studies.”