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which there were ten concerts, an amusement not too ex- 

 pensive. Last Wednesday the first singer from Vienna 

 stopt and sang to us in her way to Milan. She is very 

 young, her voice magnificent, little inferior to Catalan!. . . . 



Mrs Josiah Wedgwood to her daughter Elizabeth at 



Russell Square. 



SUNDAY NIGHT [7 March, 1824]. 



... I have missed you and Fanny very much, and that 

 makes me think that if any of you marry I shall feel very 

 dismal without you. However, I hope you will enjoy your 

 lark as much as possible. I am glad Emma [Holland] has 

 shewn her old cordiality to you, and I daresay Anne [Marsh] 

 will do the same. Let me advise you by no means to stand 

 upon your points with any of your friends. I am sure it is 

 not the way to be happy or wise either. Don't lose any 

 opportunity of calling when it comes in your way without 

 minding whether you owe them a visit, for a volunteer at a 

 convenient season may sometimes spare you a long walk at 

 an inconvenient one. . . . 



Addition by Charlotte Wedgwood on the same sheet. 



MY DEAR ELIZABETH, 



You left word with me to send a bottle of physiok 

 to LJewis's child without mentioning what physick it was 

 to be. There is come a bottle from Mr Turner's which, as 

 nobody owns, I conclude to be the one, and I shall venture 

 to send it if I hear from Mr Turner that it is made from a 

 prescription that is in your drawer. . . . 



In the letters there are frequent allusions to Elizabeth's 

 doctoring of the poor people and children, and it is impos- 

 sible to help thinking that they ran a good deal of risk. Her 

 mother spoke of two grains of calomel being given to a 

 young child every other night, but as it was worse and had 

 a sore mouth it was stopped. And Elizabeth wrote to her 

 sister Fanny (March 20, 1827), "Little George Phillips has 



