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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    for he was not six when the class began. But he was a great adept at printing. When he was a very delicate little boy of about five, of his own accord, by way of Sunday employ- ment, he set about printing the thirteenth chapter of Matthew with ink on large sheets of letter-paper which he got our mother to rule for him; and he perseveringly got through the long chapter without any help.^ Our father read with us regularly every Sunday morning some chapters in the Old Testament, and in the evening some in the New. He read out of his big Family Bible, the youngest looking on with him while the others had their own books. He read five verses consecutively, and the children took their turn in order of age, with a smaller number of verses according to the size of the reader. I read four. In our father’s study a “ press ” was given us for our own books. These gradually com- prised a considerable variety, of which I may name the following: All Miss Edgeworth’s books for the Young, Mrs. Barbauld’s Hymns ^ [From an old letter of his mother’s it appears he was bribed with a sixpence.—E. T. K.] D