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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. V. 
CHAPTER V 
1862-64 
Jenny Lind— Ruskin^Dickens— Made Chevalier of the Italian 
Order of S. Maurice and S. Lazare — Inauguration of the Leeds 
Institution, 1862 — Memoirs on the ‘Aye-Aye,’ and other 
Literary Work, 1863— Lectures before the Queen at Windsor, 
1864. 
On January 10, 1862, Owen writes to his sister 
Eliza from Dr. Arthur Farre’s, Mayfair, where he 
was staying : — 
‘ We are now in comfortable London quarters 
here. Yesterday we all drove over with the 
doctor’s pair of horses to dine with Mr. and Mrs. 
Goldschmidt. Jenny was in good voice and 
kindly sang us a song from Handel’s old opera of 
“ Susannah ” — such a beauty ! besides other songs ; 
and Mr. G. played charming selections from 
Beethoven, &c. Her youngest boy is now a year 
old, her golden-haired lassie, about six, very like 
herself ; there is every sign of a happy, well- 
ordered household.’ 
In February Owen was the guest of Sir 
William (afterwards Lord) Armstrong, during a 
lecturing tour in the North, spending some days 
with Lord Ravensworth during his stay there. 
