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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. IX. 
Richard Owen to his grandson Richard Owen are 
given below ; — 
Nov. 1 6, 1886. 
‘ I read with pleasure your sketch of Dr. 
Harvey Goodwin’s 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. 
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. 
