Recollections of the public work and home life of Louisa and Flora Stevenson.

  • McLaren, E. T. (Elizabeth T.)
Date:
1914
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Recollections of the public work and home life of Louisa and Flora Stevenson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    “ I am deeply sensible of the high honour—the highest the city has to bestow—which has just been conferred on me. “ It is not easy to express in words all that I feel in accepting it, and while I do accept it as a recognition of your too high appreciation of what I have had the privilege of being permitted to do for education as a Member of the Edin- burgh School Board and also for some years as a Governor of George Heriot’s Trust (a position which I have highly prized), I like also to think I may accept it not only as a personal honour, but as a recognition of the principle now uni- versally accepted, that there is adminis- trative work on public Boards which can be, and is, fittingly and successfully carried on by hundreds of women in all parts of the kingdom. “To me this honour is greatly enhanced by the circumstance that I receive it at the same time as two such distinguished
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