William Fairlie Clarke : his life and letters, hospital sketches and addresses.

  • Clarke, W. Fairlie (William Fairlie), 1833-1884.
Date:
1885
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Credit: William Fairlie Clarke : his life and letters, hospital sketches and addresses. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    * The little memoir of Abby Bolton was a book to which I turned at this time with great delight. It had been lent me by Mrs. , and I read it and re-read it with no small profit. Parts of it I recollect vividly to this day, though I have not seen it for twenty years. * Within a few days I wrote to Mr. John Campbell Shairp, now Principal of St. Andrews, the master of my boarding house at Rugby, to express my regret for not having made better use of the advantages which the school afforded, and to promise amendment for the short time that I was yet to stay there. * In June 1851 the school character that I had received was but a poor one. It is evident I was wasting my time. This character my mother had forwarded to me, with a few lines of her own written on the back. I crumpled it up in my hand, scorning, I suppose, both the character itself and the loving exhortation that accom- panied it, and was on the point of throwing it away, but better thoughts prevailed, and it is in my desk now. To me it is a precious document, for it is almost the only letter of my mother's that I possess, and, soiled and crumpled as it is, it seems to remind me of my own idleness and re-