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Title: Autobiographical notes of the life of William Bell Scott : and notices of his artistic and poetic circle of friends, 1830 to 1882
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890 Minto, William, 1845-1893
Subjects: Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890 Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882 Poets, English -- 19th century Painters -- Great Britain
Publisher: London : Osgood, McIlvaine
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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f thepainful malady, he resigned himself to the inevitable.Thus I find him writing as follows in a letter datednth June 1886 : As to myself I have been very much the same allthrough this long winter and longer and worse spring.In general health well, but unable to bear the very leastfatigue of body or exposure to the air. I am notallowed to go up a stair even ; and the other day (threeweeks ago indeed) I tried to walk the very short way tothe garden, and that night suffered one of the breathlessattacks so painful and which throw me back. The resultis my medico gives it as his opinion that I cant beallowed to travel, so here I remain, an idle man trying tofill up my time by writing a little, drawing or painting alittle, reading a little, and being read to a great deal.Sometimes a friend comes for a few days ; the last wasVernon Lushington, so long ago as in the beginning ofthe year. If I could induce you to come, I should be soglad. Miss Boyd tells me to say how glad she should bealso.
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CONCLUDING CHAPTER BY THE EDITOR 327 Later on in the same year, in a letter dated 30thNovember, he says : I daresay you are surprised to find me still here. Thetruth is I remain exactly the same, very weak and unablealmost to go about, now and then having those dreadfulnight attacks of heart disturbance that make my doctorprohibit travelling, and my best of friends. Miss Boyd, isnot tired of me. Mrs. Scott comes and stays a month orso, and in the intervals of my attacks I am quite well,that is to say, I apply myself to writing, painting, or anyother work that does not require athletic exercise. In the autumn of the following year, a propos ofa visit that I proposed to make, after saying that itwas the most delightful proposal he had had sinceChristmas, when F. S. Ellis came from Torquay, once errand, as we say in Scotland, all that way,for a good long talk about old friends, he wrote: About my health. You will do me a great deal of good.Living here so much alone—with Miss Boyd, the

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