The following letter was also submitted at the next meeting:—
“15 Buccleuch Place, Nov. 13, 1870.
“My Lord and Gentlemen,—To prevent any possible misconception, I beg leave, in the name of my fellow-students and myself, to state distinctly that, while urgently requesting your honourable Board to issue to us the ordinary students’ tickets for the Infirmary (as they alone will ‘qualify’ for graduation), we have, in the event of their being granted, no intention whatever of attending in the wards of those physicians and surgeons who object to our presence there, both as a matter of courtesy, and because we shall be already provided with sufficient means of instruction in attending the wards of those gentlemen who have expressed their perfect willingness to receive us.—I beg, my Lord and Gentlemen, to subscribe myself your obedient servant, Sophia Jex-Blake.”
“To the Honourable the Managers of the Royal Infirmary.”
[NOTE L], [p. 102].
As ballads are said to be even more significant than laws of the popular feeling, I do not apologise for appending the following:—
THE CHARGE OF THE FIVE HUNDRED;
A Lay of Modern Athens.
(Suggested by a recent Students’ Song, containing the following verse:—
“The little band plied the battering ram,
With General Blake at its head,