Letters of Sir Charles Bell, K.H., F.R.S.L. & E. : selected from his correspondence with his brother George Joseph Bell.

Date:
1870
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Credit: Letters of Sir Charles Bell, K.H., F.R.S.L. & E. : selected from his correspondence with his brother George Joseph Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Ch. II.] FIRST LETTER FROM LONDON. Astley Cooper called this evening wlien I was out. He left a card of appointment to meet him in St. Thomas's, and of invitation to dinner. I do not know what puts it in my head that Wilson * would like to make a connection with me. I have had some conversation with him to-day. Wilson, you know, is second in descent from Dr. Hunter in the school of Great Windmill Street Your character is higher than you are aware of, and I wish you were more sensible of your own importance. My happiness is more founded on the hope of your rapid advancement than of my own fortune. But I must hasten to a con- clusion. I hear the increased sound of carriages rolling over the chimney-tops like the sound of many waters. The opera and play are over, and it is near twelve o'clock. I will take your advice as to consulting some painter on the Anatomy of Expression, but I will not take the manuscript from Longman until I am settled. C. B. ZOth November, 1804. 22, Fludyer Street, Westminster. Now I am comfortably lodged, my dear brother, my mind more at ease, and things about me that look like home. I breakfasted to-day with Sir Joseph Banks. * Curious anticipation 1 He joined Wilson, in Windmill Street, in 1812.
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