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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    earthly life had ended at four in the afternoon, and my brother and my three sisters, wearied with fatigue and distress, had gone early to bed. We crept softly up-stairs ; were taken into the chamber of death, that we might see our mother's face once more ; and then we too retired to rest. *0n the 15th we laid our mother in the church- yard at Elvington, and we have always regarded it as a merciful circumstance that we were able thus to bury her in the village which was dear to her as having been her early home, and with which we have as a family been ever since more or less connected. The 15th was a beautiful winter day. The sun shone brightly upon the snow as we laid our mother down in the grave under the south side of the old church.' One of the friends of Dr. Fairlie Clarke's college life gives us the following reminiscences of him at this period :— * You most truly speak of William as so loving. His brightness and cheerfulness were also most pleasing traits in his character. Such was also his earnestness. The time that I was most closely connected with him was during a six weeks' read- ing party at the English Lakes in 1856. It was chiefly through his means that we adopted the