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me equally questionable. If the Radcliffe Infirmary be removed, the rail- 

 ings, the fountain, nay the Porter's Lodge, will be there. The buildings 

 and offices only would be gone, the site its associations and history 

 would remain. Moreover, the site does not belong to the University, but 

 to the Radcliffe Infirmary. Remove it then, and the chimney of the 

 University Press will still remain a beautiful spectacle, and the site an 

 open vista for all Oxford. 



I had almost forgotten to remind you that the Infirmary is unsatisfactory 

 on several accounts. Its buildings are too small, and fresh wards are 

 needed. Rebuild it on its present site, and you needlessly separate the 

 House from the Museum, the Professor from his patients; rebuild it in 

 the Parks, and we have a homogeneous whole, for which the Oxford of 

 the future will bless you. 



I should have been disposed to appeal to your generosity as an old 

 friend, not to oppose the promoters of such a scheme, unless you did not 

 approve of it. But I cannot learn that you have really considered it. 

 When I tell you that misfortune planted the Incurable Hospital in Cowley 

 and that a small band of us have laboured humbly ever since to drag it 

 from its obscurity, let me beg and entreat of you to consider and re- 

 consider all this, and help us to complete our work by adding the Incurable 

 Hospital also to those glorious structures in the Parks, in admiration of 

 which the Cher well itself will linger as it passes. I must add, that should 

 it be found that in years to come the population went further north, or 

 the Science of the future developed a need which could be more worthily 

 satisfied by the presence of other institutions, both Infirmary and Incurable 

 Hospital could easily be removed to their former sites, provided they were 

 kept vacant ; but with the example of the Angel site before us there can 

 be no difficulty on that point. 



I am, 



Yours very truly, 



NEMO. 



" Nemo " was Mr. Edward Chapman of Magdalen College. 



