The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake

by Graham Travers

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 says	Added.
[21.8]	[‘/“]It is of no importance in itself,	Replaced.
[24.26]	and may be long i[s/n] showing fruit	Replaced.
[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 invite	Added.
[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 silly	Replaced.
[111.40]	May 9th. [“]We do well to struggle	Added.
[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]tempt	Replaced.
[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 begun	Added.
[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 responsibility	Added.
[203.43]	with the old Mother.[”]	Added.
[205.16]	Wasn’t I right?...[”]	Added.
[205.39]	you can read and forward respect[t]ively	Removed.
[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 well	Removed.
[255.25]	and told him I was studyi[m/n]g Medicine	Replaced.
[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 Court	Transposed.
[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 making	Added.
[333.41]	thrown back in their professional studies	Removed.
[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]ession	Removed.
[379.19]	[“]It is just a year since we parted	Added.
[383.30]	although I [I ]expect he thought	Removed.
[448.14]	[“]So much better than I.”	Removed.
[449.7]	the personal charm, intelligen[e/c]e and humour	Replaced.
[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 here	Added.
[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 him	Removed.