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Richard Owen to Mr. White Cooper 



British Museum : September 7, 1875. 



' I cannot keep away from my work-room : 

 some singular new sauna from South Africa 

 absorb my thoughts. 



1 Your news of Fulmer 3 interests me much* 

 If I could, with a small mortgage, have raised the 

 amount, what could I do with it ? Willy, also, has 

 his lot and work in life made for him in Downing 

 Street. 



' If any of his lads should take to money- 

 getting lines of work, they may care to bring the 

 property into the old line. But the world fades 

 as one ages, like a receding landscape, and one 

 feels more and more that it is no abiding place.' 



On November 24, 1875, Professor Owen 

 writes to Mr. Townsend-Mayer from the British 

 Museum : — 



' I am still able to come here — well muffled — 

 to daily task-work. When brain gives signs of 

 weariness I toddle homewards, and, after dining, 

 rest the tired organ with a " St. James's," or " Mrs. 

 Burton," or a novel till bed-time. I am loth 

 to " put on the spur " — as dear old Walter did — ■ 

 till the machine gave way. For an old friend — 

 Froude — I did so, in behalf of his young suc- 



3 Mr. William White Cooper formed Professor Owen that the 

 at that time had a house near old property of Fulmer Place 

 Fulmer Place, and he had in- was for sale. 



