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(17) 'Memoirs of the Life of Sir Samuel Romily,' vol. i. p. 41.
(18) It is a singular circumstance that in the parish church of
St. Bride, Fleet Street, there is a tablet on the wall with an
inscription to the memory of Isaac Romilly, F.R.S., who died in
1759, of a broken heart, seven days after the decease of a
beloved wife--CHAMBERS' BOOK OF DAYS, vol. ii. p. 539.
(19) Mr. Frank Buckland says "During the long period that Dr.
Buckland was engaged in writing the book which I now have the
honour of editing, my mother sat up night after night, for weeks
and months consecutively, writing to my father's dictation; and
this often till the sun's rays, shining through the shutters at
early morn, warned the husband to cease from thinking, and the
wife to rest her weary hand. Not only with her pen did she
render material assistance, but her natural talent in the use
of her pencil enabled her to give accurate illustrations and
finished drawings, many of which are perpetuated in Dr. Buckland's
works. She was also particularly clever and neat in mending
broken fossils; and there are many specimens in the Oxford Museum,
now exhibiting their natural forms and beauty, which were restored
by her perseverance to shape from a mass of broken and almost
comminuted fragments."
(20) Veitch's 'Memoirs of Sir William Hamilton.'
(21) The following extract from Mr. Veitch's biography will give
one an idea of the extraordinary labours of Lady Hamilton, to
whose unfailing devotion to the service of her husband the world
of intellect has been so much indebted: "The number of pages
in her handwriting," says Mr.
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