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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    CIi, II.] THOUGHTS OF THE FUTURE. management. .1 make a practice of noting down my observations as the opportunity occurs. '2,2,11(1 Beceiiiber, 1804. Friday morning'. My dear George, You say that you are now satisfied that Edinbm^gh is no place for me, and that you consider me fixed in London. I cannot, I must confess, settle this point—I will not say so easily, but so entirely. I see nothing in all the success which awaits the most fortunate man here which can compensate for what I have lost in losing your continual counsel, company, and support. I am perpetually thus arguing with myself in whatever way I turn. Should these people now do all I wish, all my little comfort and happiness is wrecked upon this ' one point of ambition'— as Jefirey has it.* Indeed I still, in all my wanderings of imagination, keep my eye fixed on home ; and the hope is always prevailing that I shall be able to collect such information as may entitle me to return to you with comfort to us both. Yet you will perceive that I have been anxious to form such arrangements as will enable me to pass with people here as having a great object in view. Therefore I will not return until I have finished my Anatomy of Painting, have advanced in my Surgery, and have a rich store * For Francis Jeffrey's aifection to Georgo and Cliarles Bell, see Cockburn's Life of Jeffrey.
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