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March 1874 - Where was this offer made

Father also told of a most generous offer of Adm. Cochrane. He wrote to Father to offer him free quarters on board his ship to be put to no expence, to go where he liked & order everything abt. as if he was master. He wd have to find his way to W. Indies & then go with him the Adm. across the Isthmus of Panama to meet his Squadron. Father considered it a most tempting offer but out of the question to be accepted.

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Story of aunt's Moorpark

Beans growing to wrong side - account of my

correcting & working for f. next

religion Laws serious Call

Leaving doctoring with his Father

His family feeling - interest in his genealogy & admiration for rank & birth

D^r D.

feeling abt politics

interest in novels

good eye for colour

Ld [Lord] Clive & crime

madwoman kept out

fencing club & his pain at the suspicious & changed feeling toward him - quite difft from old days

Chobham camp & taste for stories

Visits W Lakes - enjoyment of scenery

Dissenting minister & gingerbread

How he [werked] "a barnacle man"

meeting W. Ruskin -

hatred of oppression & cruelty

dislike of commas - correcting much

Enlarge about relations to his [children]

Annie's death effect on him

Reverence for his own Father

Leo offering him 6^d to come & play w. him in work hours