2 to have a copy to lend to my children to read for I must return Maggie's as soon as father has finished. The style is
very graphic and charming in its simplicity. It will do some of our young people who have such marvellous advantages in education
almost thrust upon them, to read how you struggled surmounted every obstacle to attain the knowledge you thirsted after. It
reminds me of William or Robert Chambers I forget which, who used to go to a bakehouse every morning at 5 and sitting in the
windowsil read to the bakers The reward being the use of their tallow candle and a halfpenny bap Where there is a will there
is a way as I notice in most things connected with life. It is a nice question whether it would have been better for you ultimately
if things had been made easier for you. At any rate I dont think being down that well did you any good. One also speculates
how much your father's creed his ideas about God Hell c could have been responsible for the sterness of his methods. The pendulum
has swung back and we are now at the other extreme as instance the blank where the idea is to put no obstacles in the way
of children developing from within - not to do things for them let them do things for themselves - play their own way c. Although
I dont believe in original sin Children do behave sometimes as if there were such a thing. 05574