This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...you have been to see-my scrap of land. I have taken a great fancy to the spot, and should be very well contented to end my days there, gazing on that magnificent view of the coast and the sea. At present I am spending this vacation in Berkshire, and only suffering from the excessive cold. I am reading with the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...you have been to see-my scrap of land. I have taken a great fancy to the spot, and should be very well contented to end my days there, gazing on that magnificent view of the coast and the sea. At present I am spending this vacation in Berkshire, and only suffering from the excessive cold. I am reading with the greatest interest Baron Hiibner's ' Promenade autour du Monde, ' which was reviewed in the ' Times ' two or three days ago. It is a work of extraordinary merit and importance. I shall review it in the next /Ex. 60 LADY SMITH 215 1 Eventually the work was written by Mrs. S. R. Gardiner, though from a. point of view very different, we may believe, from that which Eeeve would have taken. ' Edinburgh, ' and I strongly recommend you to publish a translation of it, if you can. I have seldom read so wonderful a book. Ever yours faithfully, Henry Reeve. The Journal goes on to speak of perhaps the most remarkable ' centenarian' of the nineteenth century: --May 23rd.--Dined at Lord Stanhope's with the Antiquaries. Dean Stanley proposed Lady Smith's health. She was just 100. Pleasance Eeeve, Lady Smith, widow of Sir James Smith, the botanist and founder of the Linnaean Society, was born on May 11, 1773, and christened on the following day at Lowestoft, where her baptismal register still exists. On May 13, 1873, having just completed her hundredth year, she caused a dinner to be given to the hundred oldest persons in Lowestoft, whose joint ages averaged seventy-seven years, and public rejoicings were held in the town. On May 24th I went down with my daughter to see her, and spent the best part of three days with her. Married in 1795 to Dr. Smith, afterwards Sir James, she had been the intimate friend, in Norwich, of my grandfather and grandmother. On my
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