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3 You have now seen the astonishing spectacle of the 300 collegiate
4females, & are enjoying supper with now with a select few: I hope Miss
5Müller is among them; & that you are talking with her; She’s a
6glorious little woman & we must convert her. I feel a great thrill of
7hope & joy at the possible future of woman whenever I see her. Brave
8little soul! I wish for her a brave strong man friend whom she can
9respect just as I wish such a woman friend for Ray Lankester. Each one
10despises & mistrusts the other sex because they have only seen the
11worst of it. You are wrong in wishing you were either a woman or a
12working man. The fact that you have no private interest in a cause
13gives tenfold weight to every word.
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15 //Dr Donkin came to see me this afternoon & we went for a long walk.
16We sat on a gate at Pinner just not on the posts! I feel a keen little
17twinge of pain whenever I think that perhaps it was thoughtless of me
18to ask you to walk through Harrow with me.
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20 //I have been thinking out that question of woman’s ^freedom^ & sexual
21license & I think I see my way. I am sure that the case of Rome throws
22no light on it. I’ll tell you why when I write about it some day.
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26 //You once said to me at Blandford Sq, when I said that the great
27tragidy of life was the love of a complex intellectual nature for a
28purely animal one, that it was not that the the greatest tragidy in
29life was to be loved by a perfectly beautiful, tender, sensitive
30single-minded nature & not to be able to return that love. I thought
31you showed great ignorance then, but now I think you were right.
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33 Just got the enclosed from Carpenter. It’s for you alone. Return it.
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