Even the other medical friends of Robertson, when I knew that Dr.King felt a woman's tenderness, said on one occasion to him, "But we know that you, Dr.King, are above all feeling." 'If I have made the character more consistent to you by putting in these bits of mosaic, my pen will not have been ill employed, nor unpleasingly to you.
'Yours truly, 'A.

NOEL BYRON.' * * * * * LADY BYRON TO H.C.R.
'BRIGHTON, NOV.

15,1854.
'The thoughts of all this public and private suffering have taken the life out of my pen when I tried to write on matters which would otherwise have been most interesting to me: these seemed the shadows, that the stern reality.

It is good, however, to be drawn out of scenes in which one is absorbed most unprofitably, and to have one's natural interests revived by such a letter as I have to thank you for, as well as its predecessor.

You touch upon the very points which do interest me the most, habitually.