266 PROFESSOR OWEN ch. ix. 



Richard Owen to his grandson Richard Owen are 

 given below : — 



Nov. 1 6, 1886. 



1 I read with pleasure your sketch of Dr. 

 Harvey Goodwin's 7 visit to Cambridge and of 

 his University sermon. . . . We were always on 

 friendly terms, and Mrs. Harvey Goodwin keeps 

 up an occasional correspondence with me. 



' Your account of the Musical Society concert 

 makes me think of the old days when I had my 

 seat at St. James's Hall. I seldom missed a 

 " Pop," and did not give up my stall till I was too 

 deaf to hear the first violin. I have been a fellow- 

 guest of Madame Patti's more than once at my 

 hospitable friend Hume Dick's house at Thames 

 Ditton. I found her very agreeable and quite 

 disposed to have a chat with me. . . . ' 



October 13, 1887. 



* . . . . I enjoyed a charming dinner at 

 White Lodge since you left for Cambridge, but 

 time passes very quietly and peacefully with me 

 at home ; a brief sunshine occasionally tempts me 

 round the garden. I can hardly conceive a more 

 thankworthy condition, at the close of a busy life, 

 than that which I am now enjoying. . . . ' 



May 29, 1888. 



* . . . . Chadwick drove me to London on the 

 24th for the anniversary of the Linnean Society. 



7 Late Bishop of Carlisle. which the Professor kept on his 

 He was an old friend of Owen's, library mantel-piece was a 

 and one of the few photographs framed portrait of this bishop. 



