3jS THE EULOGY OF RICHARD JEFFERIES. 



scarce fifty years old. The legal and medical 

 professions have had a start of a thousand 

 years. Our profession is young yet, but will 

 be the first of all in the time to come." 



He goes on to speak of his health : 



" Ever since Christmas 1 have been trying 

 to move to the sea-coast, but I cannot effect it. 

 I cannot stick to work long enough to produce 

 any result, the extreme weakness will not let 

 me, so that I cannot do anything. Whatever 

 I wish to do, it seems as if a voice said, ' No, 

 you shall not do it. Feebleness forbids/ I 

 think I should like a good walk. No. I think 

 I should like to write. No. I think 1 should 

 like to rest. No. Always No to everything. 

 Even writing this letter has made the spine 

 ache almost past endurance. I cannot convey 

 to you how miserable it is to be impotent ; to 

 feel yourself full of ideas and work, and to be 

 unable to effect anything; to sit and waste the 

 hours. It is absolutely maddening." 



In November he writes again. He is at 

 Crowboroug.h, where the fine air at first seemed 



