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scraps, away from those I love most and the 

 society I take such delight in.' 



In a letter to Miss Clift, Owen writes two days 

 later (January 14, 1830) : — 



' You know not how rapidly I have succeeded 

 in gaining golden opinions from all sorts of men 

 in this place. You have lent me your attractions 

 and have prompted me in all my interviews. To 

 give you an idea : the whole medical staff met 

 and decided that, though they had pledged them- 

 selves to give no opinion on the merits of the 

 candidates till February, yet they were so unani- 

 mous in my favour that they would commence 

 an active canvass for me, and justify themselves 

 on the plea of the good of the institution ; they 

 changed the name, too, from House Apothecary 

 to Resident Medical and Surgical Officer. And 

 one of the old physicians said I should have come 

 in as it were by acclamation — nay, the expressions 

 of goodwill have been so flattering to me, that it 

 has made it almost painful to announce to them 

 my determination to resign. 



' But the die is cast ; you shall be with me ever, 

 and guide, and prompt, and see my exertions.' 



In a few days Owen was back again at work on 

 the Hunterian Catalogue, devoting the intervals 

 of time which were not spent in the museum of 

 the College of Surgeons to the development of 

 his medical and surgical practice at 1 1 Cook's 

 Court, Lincoln's Inn Fields. This practice was 



