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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    win one prize she will give one between them. She wanted them to drink tea with her to-night, but they had to refuse, their clothes were so shabby. They are to get new ones at the New Year before going to Thornly Bank.”] That autumn, our aunt was once more summoned to join her husband who had gone hack to Lisbon ; and she left us, never again to take up her old position as mistress of the house till after Anna and I were married. When she was gone we resumed our quaint and conscientious housekeeping, determined to obey all the directions she had given us, and to do everything we had heard of good housekeepers doing. We brought down all the spare blankets and had them shaken and toasted, and then put them by nicely folded and covered. We counted and classified all the linen, and laboriously mended some that needed repair. But I think the burden of all these duties, most of them self-imposed, was more than my strength was equal to ; for, in my anxiety to have everything right, I went off sleep ; and when I was lying awake at night I sewed long seams of old sheets, over-