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STILL IN HARNESS 
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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 sauria from South Africa 
absorb my thoughts. 
‘ Your news of Fulmer® 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- 
® Mr. William White Cooper formed Professor Owen that the 
at that time had a house near old property of Fulmer Place 
F Ulmer Place, and he had in- was for sale. 
