The unseen good : a summer quest.

  • Royal Hospital for Incurables (London, England)
Date:
1884
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The unseen good : a summer quest. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    I had another client in Verulam ; so we made our way to Prospect Road. The name seemed to have been given on the principle of lucus a non lucendo, for the front view was that of a row of red-brick cottages the reverse of picturesque. My new friend was sixty years of age, and has not yet bidden farewell to good looks, though she has suffered for thirty years from serious trouble in the liven and the lungs. She has been a recipient of the pension nearly twenty-four years. Previously, she had been an inmate of University College, Brompton, Middlesex, and the Royal Free hospitals. One day, a benevolent gentleman visited her in the last-named, and learned that she was a candidate at the Royal Hospital for Incurables at Putney ; he said he would go and see it. After doing so, he became a subscriber, and joined the Board, of which he continued to be an active member till his death. Miss D. had been a nurse ; and, when disabled, busied herself with fancy work, which had soon to be relinquished. She referred with much feeling to having been a member of Bedford Chapel, under the ministry of the late eloquent Rev. Thomas Jones. After a pleasant interview, the sisters asked us to see their garden. It was a strip running down to the Yer, giving a view of the town, rising- above a sloping green field, topped by the towers of the Abbey, that framed itself between the trees ; there was a fitness in the name “ Prospect” after all. We bade the sisters, who had prepared us a neat luncheon, with raspberries from their garden, good morning, and left, refreshed in body and in spirit. FROM A. D.’s GAEDEX.