The Life of Henry Morley, Ll D

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. FRAGMENTS OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY, 1822?1832. Soon after he was engaged to be married, in 1843, Henry Morley wrote a sketch of his own life down to that year. He describes three periods, the first of which is mainly occupied with his early experiences of English schools. In 1848, just before he gave...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. FRAGMENTS OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY, 1822?1832. Soon after he was engaged to be married, in 1843, Henry Morley wrote a sketch of his own life down to that year. He describes three periods, the first of which is mainly occupied with his early experiences of English schools. In 1848, just before he gave up the practice of medicine for teaching, he wrote out the account of this first period at much greater length, heading it ' Vita Mea, ' and probably intending it to be the first chapter of an autobiography. This intention, however, if it ever existed, remained unfulfilled, and we have his own account of himself in any detail and as a connected narrative only down to the time when his age was ten years and nine months. In 1891, after he had retired to Carisbrooke, he wrote with great care a paper which he called ' Some Memories, ' and this he prefixed as an introduction to a volume in which he republished a number of his early writings. This paper should be read by everyone interested in his life. No doubt it contains all that he himself wished to tell the world about his career, its special object being to link together two portions of his life and work, which he felt needed some such connection. As he himself abandoned the idea of a fuller autobiography, it would not be ' Early Papers and Some Memories.' Routledge, London.fair to print ' Vita Mea' as it stands, though extracts may be made from its pages. He passes some remarks upon his ancestry. He believed in the connection with the Sussex family, he noted the Midhurst blacksmith, and he dwelt with some satisfaction on his middle-class position, his nearest relatives being for the most part engaged in various branches of trade. His father was a surgeon, living, in 1822, at 100, Hatton Garden, which was the Harley Str.