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F1552.2 Book: Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 2. Text Image PDF

the pleasure of giving pleasure. Even when playing with her cousins, when her joyousness almost passed into boister-ousness, a single glance of my eye, not of displeasure (for I thank God I hardly ever cast one on her), but of want of sympathy, would for some minutes alter her whole countenance. The other point in her character, which made her joyousness and spirits so delightful, was her strong affection, which was of a most clinging, fondling nature. When quite a baby, this showed itself in

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F1552.2 Book: Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 2. Text Image PDF

an inexpressible blessing it is to have one whom one can always trust, one always the same, always ready to give comfort, sympathy and the best advice. God bless you my dear, you are too good for me. Yesterday I was poorly: the Review and confounded Queen was too much for me; but I got better in the evening and am very well to-day. I cannot walk far yet; but I loiter for hours in the Park and amuse myself by watching the ants: I have great hopes I have found the rare slave-making species, and

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direct them upwards, as well as to one who values them above everything in the world. I shall keep this by me till I feel cheerful and comfortable again about you, but it has passed through my mind often lately so I thought I would write it, partly to relieve my own mind. Below are the words: God bless you. C. D. June, 1861. She spoke little to us about her religious feelings. I remember once, when I was a girl, her telling me that she had often felt she could only bear her anxiety by saying a

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telegraph came here at eleven. We have written to W. and the boys. God bless you, my dear old fellow may your life so continue. Your affectionate Father, CH. DARWIN. Emma Darwin to her daughter Henrietta. DOWN, Sunday [January, 1868]. My dearest Body, We had a pleasant interlude yesterday in the appearance of Lenny and Horace from school. They flyed to Keston Mark and then came on foot. George's success made a tremendous stir at Clapham1. Wrigley had never been seen in such a state. He gave the

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. Whilst I was abroad the proof-sheets of the Descent of Man were sent out to me to read. My mother writes to me of one of the chapters: I think it will be very interesting, but that I shall dislike it very much as again putting God further off. To shew how delightfully my father took any help his children gave him, I give the following letter, although of course the praise is excessive, and out of all proportion to what I really did. [pages] 230 - 23

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you so God bless you, my dear Henrietta. My warmest of loves for the beloved Emma, whom you have the pleasure of calling mother, and to your daddy respectfully, and love to Bessy, and success to your Italian class. Affectionately yours, FRANS. ALLEN. In the years when we were growing up, I believe my mother was often puzzled as to what rules to make about keeping Sunday. I remember she persuaded me to refuse any invitation from the neighbours that involved using the carriage on that day, and it

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Harry's forgetting to return it I am about to try a reader, but my yesterday's experiment was not promising as she kept me waiting of-an-hour and then sent up to tell me she had a bad cold, and so have I, but I hope it is leaving me. It is now a fortnight since I have been out of doors; it is so mild to-day that I think I shall try a little pacing behind the hedge. I do not know whether you touch C. Voysey's writings. I was pleased with his last discourse, Man the only Revelation of God. I do not

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F1552.2 Book: Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 2. Text Image PDF

Mrs Tasker's, as he cannot bear to be absent from the children. I suppose you read long ago the Hare Memorials of a Quiet Life. I feel intense compassion for the shortness of poor Mrs Hare's married happiness, not five years, but I cannot bear her notion that God took him away because she was so deeply attached to him. Not that I think a person cannot be selfish in their love; but it is not the strength of the love that is the sin, but the selfishness. I wish they had omitted at least half the

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and I want to tell you of a talk I had with dear Mr Darwin at Patterdale. We were talking of you, and he said with the deepest feeling, 'God knows she has been good to me.' How true this was and how deeply he felt her goodness, only their children know. He wrote in his autobiography: You all know your mother, and what a good mother she has ever been to all of you. She has been my greatest blessing, and I can declare that in my whole life I have never heard her utter one word which I would rather

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of her youth and middle life. It always seems to me like boasting when she tells how entirely she feels that God decides everything for her; she should keep that to herself The French stories by Julliot are dull and odious, and the little novel La Folk du Logis quite pretty and nice. How very odd the French are. THE GROVE, Mar. 25, 1895. Dearest H., I wonder whether you had our yesterday's storm. It increased in violence all morning and was at its height about two. I looked out to see the trees

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it. What I do understand makes me think less of his good sense. Oct. 18th, 1895. I have finished Balfour. Of course I don't do the book justice, but the last two or three pages seem to me very inconclusive. I can agree with him that the belief in a God who cares is an immense safeguard for morality; but I do not see that the doctrine of the Atonement is any additional safeguard yes, I do see it partly. Also I am surprised at his considering that morality is impossible without some religion, which

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Tom Wedgwood to his mother Mrs John Wedgwood. FRANCE, ENCAMPED NEAR COTTEAUX.June 24th, 1815. We had the post of honor and were the first to begin the attack. At the affair of the 16th I was rather nervous at first, for we came quite unawares to the field after an amazing long march, and I had not time to get collected but soon got right again. On the 18th I did not feel at all in the same way, as we expected the action, and I was prepared. I trusted in God and He has been pleased to spare me

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them on our road. Once they greeted us with God save the King! In return they had nothing from Fanny but abhorrence; you may guess how the sight of them made her blood boil. Since she has arrived here she has heard that the evil they have done has been much exaggerated, and this from a quarter she generally gives credit to. I don't know that what she has heard in their favour has softened her to them, but she is now too well pleased with her present situation to be very angry at anything. Our

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most scrupulous exactness, and this whole week has been passed in the different negotiations, and in a state of anxiety on our parts difficult to describe. The definitive deeds were not signed till 4 o'clock this morning, and the partners of both houses were here up all night, and several times during the investigation they were nearly off. Thank God however it L. 9 [pages] 130 - 13

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feelings so ardently that I do feel him a very precious friend, and I wish to God his better health would make me feel more secure of him. He was so unhappy when he thought of leaving us about a fortnight ago by himself, that we proposed going over with him to Pescia, to see if Sismondi was inclined to travel with him to Rome. Sismondi was very glad of the offer, but it was no sooner accepted than William Clifford appeared to suffer so much from shyness, that I think he repented he had made it

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the two younger girls, went to pay a friendly visit, where by agreement there was to be no party to meet us. I enjoyed my visit very much, liking Mrs Tollet and the girls so much as I do. We had a great deal of working, talking, and singing. Mrs Tollet is exceedingly religious, and I think her duty to God is the first object of her thoughts. She is also so single-hearted that it is a great pleasure to be with her, and to read a heart so entirely without guile. Next week Georgina and Marianne

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wrote with great pleasure of the nice wife Harry has found for himself, and adds, the more I think of it, the more I am satisfied. Mrs Josiah Wedgwood to her sister Emma Allen. 26 Nov. 1829. Harry will now have a stronger motive than ever he had before to apply, and I am sure he will be content with a little if he can make her happy, which I hope to God he will do. This business having led to some investigation of property, it has been a great satisfaction to me (not alone on Jessie's account as

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fast1. We came in for the tail of Lord Althorp's, which we could not hear. Several people were coughed down who supported Mr Percival, and there was a good deal of impatience during his second speech (though they listened very attentively to his first); which made Mrs Rich think the whole house in such a dreadful state of impiety and rebellion against God that she was crying bitterly most of the time. As soon as Mr Percival had withdrawn his motion he came up to his wife who was in the

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10 minutes I should think; and then Mr Irving thanked God in prayer for the messages sent us by the Spirit, and we were out at 10 minutes after 8. Mrs Rich appeared much affected during the whole course of the service, so I made no observation on our way back, and listened to her and a friend whom we picked up on the way, talking of these wonderful things. I went down on Wednesday to Dulwich and had the good luck to meet Peter Hoare as my companion in the coach. I found Jessie and Sismondi

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more of Paris, except that the ladies' bonnets are very small; they wear feathers in them. I feel very anxious respecting the Reform question and all that hangs to it in England, also of the cholera. I trust that we shall hear from one of you, it would be a great treat to have a few lines from yourself; but you have too much to do for me to ask it, and sometimes, when I am very disinterested, even to wish it. God bless you, and preserve your health. Yours, dear Mackintosh, affectionately, F

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, companion for the rest of life, and God grant you a long and happy one together. I hope some of your larks may bring you out to us before your cares and business make you prisoners. I know I shall love him, I am grateful to him for saving you from Erasmus. I was always afraid of that. I knew you would be a Mrs Darwin from your hands; and seeing Charles did not come on, which Fan and I used to speculate on and expect in every letter from Maer, I began to fear it was Erasmus. Now that your person

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pacing the deck of the poor little Beagle at night. Excuse this much egotism, I give it you because I think you will humanize me, and soon teach me there is greater happiness than building theories and accumulating facts in silence and solitude. My own dearest Emma, I earnestly pray you may never regret the great, and I will add very good deed, you are to perform on the Tuesday. My own dear future wife, God bless you The Lyells called on me to-day after church, as Lyell was so full of Geology he

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nights, and have escaped my morning sicknesses for a good many days. These are among my present blessings for which I am very thankful. I can write no more except tender love to Charles and to the Hensleighs and thanks for your letter to Elizabeth. I hope to have another happy letter from you soon. God bless you, my ever dear, you will have no difficulty in believing me your affectionate Mum, E. WEDGWOOD. Elizabeth Wedgwood to her sister Emma Darwin. MAER, Monday Night, February 4 [1839]. My

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. That notwithstanding the great successes with which he will meet Parliament, anxiety has aged him ten years in these last ten months1. Give our united love to your husband and a kiss to your child. Remember me kindly to Parslow. God bless you, my dear little Emma. It may be mentioned that Jessie Sismondi's epithet little which she often uses in writing to my mother does not seem to us characteristic. My mother was not little physically, and the kind of playful or appealing charm which makes that

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as great interest as at first and with greater admiration. It is a precious part of our library which we owe to my own Bessy. God bless her for it. On June 25, 1842, Sismondi died at Geneva. Jessie's sister Harriet Surtees and her niece Eliza Wedgwood were still at Ch ne. 1 Eliza's.father. [pages] 40 - 4

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books of my own? Let me know pretty soon if you have, that I might send off the case. As I know writing is troublesome to you in the present time, either Elizabeth or Charlotte, who will I believe soon be with you, will write for you. My tender love to them and warmest thanks for their dear letters, which did me all the good yours did, tho' I did not tell them so, but accepted their considerate injunction not to answer them. God bless my dearest niece. The tender love of H. and E. to you and your

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with trembling. I feel that wicked power Austria ready to pounce on them when they go further than it likes, and Russia ready to back Austria, to say nothing of Prussia. Dear Emma, I am proud you treat me with your nursery annals, and I exult in the pretty character of Willy. May God preserve it to him through the boy's rough world. I am sure He will. The seeds of the man are sown at ten, there are bettering and worsening but no change. We are reading out Jane Eyre with great interest. My private

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me so short, so fleeting, as if nothing was worth thinking of but the Eternity in which we recover all our earthly loves. Tender and loving Mother, what a fountain of love will burst forth there for you, from your many happy loving children. May God preserve them and your husband to you, my Emma, and you to me 1 Aged 6 . 2 Annie died the year before. Charles Darwin to his son William at Rugby. DOWN, Tuesday, 24th [Feb. 1852]. My dear old Willy, I have not for a very long time been more pleased

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of it, and he raised his hands and said it was the most wonderful event in the world, 25,000,000 rising up and saying by the Almighty God we will put an end to these shams. He also talked of the frightful difficulty of rewriting the 1st vol. when the manuscript had been burnt; he said it was the hardest job he had ever had, that he had not a scrap of note or reference of any kind and it was like trying to float in the air without any wings, or some metaphor to that effect. He also said that he

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winter, Whole or maimed, always and alike beautiful, He preacheth gospel of grace to the skins of owls, And to one who seasoneth the skins of Canadian owls. Oh God! oh Montreal! When I saw him, I was wroth, and I said, O Discobolus! Beautiful Discobolus, a Prince both among gods and men, What doest thou here, how camest thou here, Discobolus, Preaching gospel in vain to the skins of owls? Oh God! oh Montreal! And I turned to the man of skins, and said unto him, Oh! thou man of skins, Wherefore

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existing. To the question, then, 'Whence comes man; does he come from Nature or from God?' we must, I think, reply that not only man, but Nature also, owe their existence to the Infinite Eternal Being God, who 'created' all things. Then follows the striking passage which he reprints as the Argument of the second work, Why does Man Exist? ARGUMENT. Supposing these answers to be accepted, other questions suggest themselves. We want to know why man exists. We want to know why God 'created' him. Did

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The Discobolus is put here because he is vulgar, He hath neither vest nor pants with which to cover his limbs; I, sir, am a person of most respectable connections, My brother-in-law is haberdasher to Mr. Spurgeon. Oh God! oh Montreal! Then I said, O brother-in-law to Mr. Spurgeon's haberdasher! Who seasonest also the skins of Canadian owls, Thou callest 'trousers' 'pants,' whereas I call them 'trousers,' Therefore thou art in hell-fire, and may the Lord pity thee! Oh God! oh Montreal

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star shining brightly on high, That heralds the dawn of the long-promised day, When Right shall be Might, and shall flourish for aye; When Man in the strength of his manhood shall stand, To enjoy, and possess, and replenish the land. With our faces to heaven and our feet on the sod, We swear by the faith that we cherish in God By the breeze of the sky, by the light of the sun, That the Land shall be ours, and that Right shall be done. Hear it, ye Tyrants, that hold us in thrall! God the great

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, Pope! May God all-powerful grant you length of days! (The same read backwards.) May God omnipotent remove you soon From earth! May your prosperity be short! You grasp at gain and shun expense: your door, Inhospitable Pope, stands ever shut. Naught to the poor you give: your power is due To wealth not worth: by intrigue you have risen. In faded ink and very old handwriting, probably my grandfather's, is the following charade, the answer to which is not given, but it is worth preserving for its

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discusses many great subjects, such as the existence of God, immortality, the moral sense, the progress of society, etc. I think some of his propositions rest on very uncertain foundations, and I could get no clear idea of his notions about God. Notwithstanding this and other blemishes, the book has interested me extremely. Perhaps I have been to some extent deluded, as he manifestly ranks too high what I have done. I am delighted to hear that you spend so much time out-of-doors and in your

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God able to prevent evil but not willing? Then he is not benevolent. Is he willing but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he both able and willing? Whence then is evil? This struck me very much, and it seemed quite unanswerable, and when at home a year or two afterwards, I took the opportunity one day to repeat it to my father, rather expecting he would be very much shocked at my acquaintance with any such infidel literature. But he merely remarked that such problems were mysteries which

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expresses the same idea, and which perhaps may be it A Prayer as follows: A crowned Caprice is god of this world; On his stony breast are his white wings furled. No ear to listen, no eye to see, No heart to feel for a man hath he. But his pitiless arm is swift to smite, And his mute lips utter one word of might; 'Mid the clash of gentler souls and rougher, Wrong must thou do, or wrong must suffer.' Then grant, oh, dumb, blind God, at least that we Rather the sufferers than the doers be. The

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recollect, as it referred to a subject on which I differed from Mill, and thought his views, for such an undoubtedly great and clear thinker, somewhat hasty and ill-considered. The conversation turned somehow upon the existence and nature of God. Mr. Grote seemed inclined to accept the ordinary idea of an eternal omniscient and benevolent existence, because anything else was almost unthinkable. To which Mill replied, that whoever considered the folly, misery, and badness of the bulk of mankind

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that what we call evil may be essential to the ultimate development of the highest good for all; but he would not listen to it or argue the question at all, but repeated, dogmatically, that an omnipotent God might have made man wise, good, and happy, and as He had not chosen to do so it was absurd for us to believe in such a being and call Him almighty and good. He then turned the conversation as if he did not wish to discuss the matter further. There is one point in connection with this

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, apparently some years older than myself, and looking very like what young Mr. Higgins of Turvey might have grown into. He somehow reminded me of Chaucers description of a priest A little round, fat, oily man of God Was one I chiefly marked among the fry, He had a rogueish twinkle in his eye except that he could hardly be described as round, or fat, but simply jolly in person as in manner. So when his friends left about an hour after dinner, I asked him, if he had no engagement, to stay a little

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reverence and of which they considered themselves the special defenders. They read in what they called The Word of God, Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth! Yet this is what they were, and are, constantly striving for, not by purchase only, but by open or secret robbery. Again, they read in their holy book, The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is Mine; and at every fiftieth

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ar byd; ti hefyd wyt Dduw, o dragywyddoldeb hyd dragywyddoldeb ( Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever Thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, Thou art God ). The Welsh clergy are usually good readers and energetic preachers, and seem to enjoy doing full justice to their rich and expressive language, and even without being able to follow their meaning it is a pleasure to listen to them. Among the numerous Englishmen who visit Wales for

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. God knows whether my strength and spirit will last out to write a chapter versus Mivart and others; I do so hate controversy, and feel I shall do it so badly. [page] 1

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miseries, I would never publish another word. But I shall cheer up, I dare say, soon, having only just got over a bad attack. Farewell. God knows why I bother you about myself. I can say nothing more about missing links than I have said. I should rely much on pre-Silurian times; but then comes Sir W. Thompson like an odious spectre. Farewell. I give these extracts because they serve to explain why Darwin did not publish the systematic series of volumes dealing with the whole of the subjects treated

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ever published; but this may be merely because I have read it last. As I went on I made a few notes, chiefly where I differed slightly from you; but God knows whether they are worth your reading. You will be disappointed with many of them; but it will show that I had the will, though I did not know the way to do what you wanted. I have said nothing on the infinitely many passages and views, which I admired and which were new to me. My notes are badly expressed, but I thought that you would excuse

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carry it out to its logical consequence the inequity, and therefore the social immorality of wealth-inheritance. To secure equality of opportunity there must be no inequality of initial wealth. To allow one child to be born a millionaire and another a pauper is a crime against humanity, and, for those who believe in a deity, a crime against God.1 It is universally admitted that very great individual wealth, whether inherited or acquired, is beneficial neither to the individual nor to society. In

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life that is. Prop. III. As God made a free gift to each man of life, He equally intended for a free gift the necessary condition of life a portion of the soil. Prop. V. Hence a portion of the soil is each man's congenital and inalienable patrimony. Prop. VII. The nationalizing of the soil should have been the primary, the fundamental step in human association. Prop. X. The culture of a portion of the soil (as a man's own) has this advantage over all other labour, that it gives him directly, and

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that he shall attend the grand service of the Assumption, when all his clerical friends are convinced he will be cured, and they excite in him the same belief. But though all the ceremonies have been fulfilled, nothing happens, and he resigns himself to the conviction that it is not the will of God that he should be cured. But when attending another service the next day, and not expecting anything, he suddenly feels a conviction that he is well, rises from his couch, kneels down, and prays. From

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the margin three messages in different handwritings. One is from Stanley St. Clair, the spirit-artist, who says he has produced the portrait for me, at the request of the medium. The others are short messages from Elizabeth Wallace and R. Wallace, the latter perhaps one of the unknown Scotch uncles of my father, the other beginning, God bless you, my boys, is probably from our paternal grandmother, who is buried at Laleham. The last is my brother's folding-slate, containing on one side a short

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, ii. 235; dining with John Stuart Mill and discussion on God, ii. 236; on the origin of evil, ii. 237 LAND NATIONALIZATION, ii. 235 274 on land nationalization, ii. 238; Land Nationalization Society founded, ii. 240; forerunners of land nationalization, ii. 240, 241; propositions of Robert Dick, ii. 241 243; writes Land Nationalization: its Necessity and its Aims, ii. 243; his paper on The Morality of Interest quoted, ii. 244 249; correspondence with Robert Miller, ii. 249; conference called by