Lord Kelvin's early home : being the recollections of his sister the late Mrs. Elizabeth King / together with some family letters and a supplementary chapter by the editor, Elizabeth Thomson King ; with illustrations from Mrs. King's own drawings and those of her daughters.

  • King, Elizabeth, 1818-1896.
Date:
1909
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Credit: Lord Kelvin's early home : being the recollections of his sister the late Mrs. Elizabeth King / together with some family letters and a supplementary chapter by the editor, Elizabeth Thomson King ; with illustrations from Mrs. King's own drawings and those of her daughters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [To this little home came happy little visitors,—grand-nephews and grand-nieces. They sat on her lap, and listened enthralled, as their parents had done before them, to the stories of Beauty and the Beast, of Bluebeard, of Red Riding-hood. Never was lap so cosy, and never were tales so thrilling.]