1865-68 
SOCIAL LIFE 
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CHAPTER VI 
1865-68 
Social Life— Letter from Tennyson— Serious Illness— Bones of the 
Dodo— Plan of Sunday Lectures, 1865— His Love of Society, 
and wide Circle of Friends— Death of Whewell, 1866— Marriage 
of his only Son, January 1867—' Wayside Gatherings ’ and their 
Teachings, 1867 — Lectures at Bradford, 1868. 
On January 28, 18651 Owen writes to his 
sisters ; — 
‘ We have now a Siberian landscape front 
the Cottage, very bright and beautiful though. 
... I was tempted by an invitation from a 
tailway millionaire on Wednesday to Chipstead 
Place, a fine old manor house once owned by a 
son-in-law of Oliver Cromwell, full of wainscoted 
tooms and a very fine library full of choicest 
editions— all the 4to plays of Shakespeare, a first 
edition of the folio, &c. On Thursday drove to 
Penshurst Place, where I saw all the relics of Sir 
Philip Sidney : the card table which Queen Eliza- 
beth had worked for him, the pair of glass chan- 
deliers which she presented to the ballroom after 
her “progress " to Penshurst, and a most quaint 
