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will be better, but we have a good bright sunshine between 

 the occasional light snow showers, and both Miss Hartwell 

 and myself have good furred mantles, and with the snug 

 small carriage all our own way, I think we shall do very 

 well. 



What a sight the hall will be ! also your small flock of 

 aspirant doctors ; may be as anxious in their minds as 

 some one I know of. But I am really not alarmed. 1 am 

 sure you will keep me right. What time of day does the 

 ceremony begin ? And what happens after ? do we retire 

 respectively like rabbits to our own burrows ? 



March 29, 1900. 



The pamphlet on the McEwan Hall [the number of the 

 " Student" describing the opening of the Hall] is a great 

 boon to me, and what a noble building ! 



While in Edinburgh my idea is to have lunch at one 

 o'clock, my usual time, and a sort of miscellaneous meal at 

 6.30, and rest in the evening after it, and I shall think it a 

 great compliment and a very great pleasure if friends may 

 do me the favour to look in after, say, about two o'clock. 

 It will be much safer for me, under present circumstances 

 of wanting to keep fresh and strong for the day, not to go 

 out, so I should be on the spot. Sir Wm. Muir and his 

 daughter, Mrs. Arbuthnot, kindly wrote that they meant to 

 look in, but it would be only a pleasure to me to see any 

 friends. Please to consider me as quite under your 

 guidance for this, to me, so very great occasion, and wholly 

 thankful so to be, excepting in the feeling of the great 

 trouble that you are kindly taking. Yours very sincerely, 



ELEANOR A. ORMEROD. 



P.S. Dr. E. L. thought it would be best for me to return 

 by the Sunday night sleeping train, and the Midland manager 

 has given permission for it to stop here on Monday morning. 



Professor Wallace to MissE. A. Ormerod. 



UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, 



March 29, 1900. 



DEAR Miss ORMEROD, The box containing your most 

 valuable contribution to the library arrived safely from 

 Wesley & Son, and the ten volumes, [of her own works] 

 all in excellent order, are standing on the Senate Hall table 

 so that they may be seen. The Principal, Sir Wm. Muir, 

 and the Secretary, Sir L. Grant, were the first, along with 

 Professor Patrick and me, to inspect them in their present 



