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thought, and that as I hope to address other audiences, I 

 may not lose the recollection of my first, which was more 

 kind, generous, and forgiving towards me than any future 

 audience ever can be." 



The correspondence with Daniel continues the narrative : 

 " I wish, I hope, and I expect for you all success ; and I 

 can do this the more heartily, as I can in return crave sym- 

 pathy ; for though it might appear otherwise, by a reference 

 only being made to lectures and Christison, my whole time 

 and energies are occupied in reading, writing, and experi- 

 menting for my Essay; and I only allow myself half an 

 hour when walking, to think of my next lecture. Dr. 

 Christison has given me liberty to try as many experiments 

 as I like in his laboratory, and I shall not miss the oppor- 

 tunity. Meanwhile, I am toiling night and day, as you are, 

 elated with hopes and depressed with fears and troubles, as 

 you are, and feeling how much more would be my progress 

 had I you beside me." 



In a letter of March i st , he thus speaks of one of his 

 cousins : 



" Catherine is much the same ; for some days back she 

 was better, i.e. in her feelings, for the real state of the case 

 never altered ; but she is again not so well. She is in that 

 state of mind which theorists might deny, as impossible, 

 but which all who have felt keenly or have thought much, 

 can enter into and sympathize with ; she is entertaining the 

 incompatible feelings accompanying a looking forward to 

 another world and yet a lingering interest in a present. 

 That the latter should remain is no cause of wonder, 

 specially in her disease." What this disease was, with its 



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