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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    usually are. I hear that you have had rather a severe illness, and one that there was a fear might have become dangerous ; and yet your only fee mg is mortification at being prevented from attending several balls. I know it would be very foolish in me to moralise on the vanity of such amusements. I trust you have intellect and feeling to make the discovery by-and-bye yourself, and I would only become a loser by my ill-timed sermonising, as you would only cease to tell me what you might be about; and I am far too deeply interested, an attached to you, not to feel that it would be a privation. “I observe that you now pass over your new dresses very lightly, but I hear from ‘ha' you and Elizabeth are the most fashionably attired young ladies possible. I am sure you are very aUd to get rid of me and my monitory remarks upon neck-ribbons, etc. Howeyer, 1 am nearly as much pleased to see you neat and nice as you are yourself.”] We were in a constant round of pleasure for nearly three months, which I must say I enjoyed very much. But looking ^ back, I am sure we were really happier in the peaceful times when we were all so busy together. There were rarely any delightful readings with our father now, as Anna and I were out so much, and all the boys were