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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    We were very happy to have her among us at home. About this time Anna and I had lessons from Sheridan Knowles in reading and elocu- tion. We learned to recite in grand style a great many pieces of poetry, and read with him various books, or rather parts of books, reading aloud, of course. Dr. Bryce of the Belfast Academy ^—a great friend of Miss Edgeworth—had always taken a keen interest in our education. I recollect when I was very little, his coming sometimes to oversee the lessons my mother was giving, and his giving me some instruction himself. I think it was this winter he formed a Latin class for little boys and girls. At any rate it was this winter that Anna and I joined it. Anna was quite the youngest in the class, and was scarcely able to overtake its business ; but I learned pretty easily, and was generally at the top. I still possess a copy of Eutropius inscribed as the first prize. Miss Scott of Dunovan (where the ink catastrophe already mentioned occurred) came 1 [Uncle of the Right Hon. James Bryce, British Ambassador in America.]