Memoir and Letters (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Rudolf Cecil Hopkinson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330737393 ISBN 13: 9781330737392

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Memoir and Letters

When an Alpine accident deprived him of his father, two of his sisters and a brother, he was seven years old, too young to realise, in an ordinary way, the tragedy. The gloom thus caused was irksome and unnatural to him, and it was by way of a protest against it as well as to give expression to an irrepressible pleasure that, in a long silence during the lunch after the funeral, he exclaimed in his loud, childish voice to his sister: I say Nelly, isn't this pudding nice? But that he did appreciate what the loss meant to his mother was unmistakably shown by the messages which he wrote on pages torn from his little notebook, and passed to her during the homeward journey. The story of these missives is told in what she has written about him. They were the greatest comfort that any human being could give and were brought with a happy, natural simplicity, without any special demonstration. He always liked to have a note book and tried to use it methodically, though he was never a tidy boy. When his scientific propensities were developing and he started collecting butterflies, the entry appeared in one of his books: Saw two brimstones to-day, a he and a she. Another, when he was not more than nine or ten years old, reads: This book belongs to R. C. Hopkinson, - not him but his brother is. This was some years before the brother had become a Fellow. The child had a profound and enduring admiration for his brother. Once, when the mother was commenting with vexation on the dirty, untidy state of the room set aside as her eldest son's laboratory, Cecil stopped her by saying: Let me remind you that Bertie has done very good work in this room!

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1330737393
• ISBN 13: 9781330737392
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 194