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Springthorpe, Grey, Martin, and Coy. who offend my ears and my whole nervous system by their coarseness, their ignorance, their vulgarity, their dirt, and their vain self flattery. A change much to my advantage.

Good night! I must look at two London papers which have come to me, one from Mrs Fraser, I know not the writing on the other. Must go to the medical school library on Saturday or Sunday.

Good night! Good night!!! Good night!!!!!
[A line of Xs and Os.] Car. [A line of Xs and Os.] Joe. [A line of Xs and Os.] Kit.

"No man who is wretched in his own heart, and feeble in his own work, can rightly help others." Fors Clavigera.
[John Ruskin: Fors Clavigera, a series of letters addressed to British workmen, published during the 1870s.]

"Wisdom and goodness to the vile man seem vile;
Filths savour but themselves." King Lear IV. 2.

23-4-15
2-15 p.m. No letters from you apparently by the Mongolia, all should have been delivered before now. No papers. But hope will still exist. Today is St George's day, the patron saint of England, also the anniversary of the birth and death of William Shakespeare – 1564 & 1616 A.D. – All hail to him. The quotations from a play & from Ruskin are suitable:/

"The poet's pen
... gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name"
M. N. Dream V.1

"All most lovely forms or thoughts
are directly taken from natural objects"
The seven lamps of Architecture [book by John Ruskin]

This means that by observation the man of capacity in observing derives from an examination of natural objects the perfection of form which he is able to imitate & produce

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