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are such as support all she has printed, or written, or said upon the 
subject. Twelve years have elapsed since these entries were made; 
and she feels confident that any stranger, even Mr. Greenough him- 
self, would perceive, on looking over them, in the minuteness of the 
observations, in the mixture of common and household notices, and 
the remarks on the progress of the civil war, which was then rife, 
tokens of that desire for the exact truth, which has always guided 
er, 
Mrs. Callcott would have been happy to have furnished any ex- 
planation of what Mr. Greenough thinks doubtful parts of her state- 
ments, had he thought it worth while to have made any application 
to her. And as her relation and friend, Mr. Glennie, a lieutenant 
in the Royal Navy, no longer an invalid, now resides with his wife 
in Kensington, Mr. Greenough might have had, what he appears to 
desire—Some Officer’s corroboration. (See p. 18 of the Address.) 
And, moreover, Mrs. Callcott would have been spared the disagree- 
able necessity of appealing, as she now does, to Mr. Greenough’s 
own sense of justice, and to that of the society over which he pre- 
sides, for some explanation of his motives for making so uncandid 
and uncourteous an attack upon her. 
Mrs. Callcott cannot feel that it is a light thing to be suspected of 
wilful falsehood. She made no pretensions to science in any of her 
statements, nor did she presume to draw conclusions, or frame the- 
ories. She stated the facts that came under her own observation, 
and she must be permitted to claim for herself, one qualification for 
an observer, namely, a mind more at ease than it was likely most oth- 
er persons in Chile could have possessed, because she had no family 
in that country—she had neither political nor commercial connex- 
ions in South America—no interests that could be affected, by either 
the civil war or the Earthquake ; while there was not one other per- 
son, whose friends or whose property were not, more or less, deeply 
involved in both. 
Mrs, Callcott is very sorry to have been forced to say so much 
of herself: but she thinks it due to her family and friends, and to the 
society in which she has always moved, to repel so disgraceful a 
suspicion, which, if it were in the smallest degree founded, must ren- 
er her unworthy, either of society or friends. 
