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Edinburgh Colleagues Farrago vitæ I. The family circle Fleeming and his sons Highland life The cruise of the steam-launch Summer in Styria Rustic manners II. The drama Private theatricals III. Sanitary associations The phonograph IV. Fleeming's acquaintance with a student His late maturity of mind Religion and morality His love of heroism Taste in literature V. His talk His late popularity Letter from M. Trélat.
Edinburgh Colleagues FARRAGO VITAE I. The Family Circle Fleeming and his Sons Highland Life The Cruise of the Steam Launch Summer in Styria Rustic Manners II. The Drama Private Theatricals III. Sanitary Associations The Phonograph IV. Fleeming's Acquaintance with a Student His late Maturity of Mind Religion and Morality His Love of Heroism Taste in Literature V. His Talk His late Popularity Letter from M. Trelat.
I will speak elsewhere of Fleeming's demeanour to his students; and it will be enough to add here that his relations with his colleagues in general were pleasant to himself. Edinburgh, then, with its society, its university work, its delightful scenery, and its skating in the winter, was thenceforth his base of operations.
When I dwell upon some one thing, he must bear in mind it was only one of a score; that the unweariable brain was teeming at the very time with other thoughts; that the good heart had left no kind duty forgotten. In Edinburgh, for a considerable time, Fleeming's family, to three generations, was united: Mr. and Mrs. Austin at Hailes, Captain and Mrs.
I nearly paid dear for my obstinacy, however; for in the evening I had alternate fits of shivering and burning." The next extracts, and I am sorry to say the last, are from Fleeming's letters of 1860, when he was back at Bona and Spartivento, and for the first time at the head of an expedition.
I put together here a few brief extracts from Fleeming's letters, none very important in itself, but all together building up a pleasant picture of the father with his sons. "Jan. 15th, 1875. Frewen contemplates suspending soap-bubbles by silk threads for experimental purposes. I don't think he will manage that. "Jan. 17th.
M. Trelat will pardon me if I correct, even before I quote him; but what the Frenchman supposed to flow from some particular bitterness against France, was only Fleeming's usual address. Had M. Trelat been Italian, Italy would have fared as ill; and yet Italy was Fleeming's favourite country. Vous savez comment j'ai connu Fleeming Jenkin! C'etait en Mai 1878.
The interest is one that absorbs all others. We eat, drink, and sleep to the noise of drums and musketry. You would enjoy and almost admire Fleeming's enthusiasm and earnestness and, courage, I may say for we are among the small minority of English who side with the Italians.
Fleeming's wife coming to the house and asking one of the nurses for news of Mrs.
He was not popular at first, being known simply as "the man who dines here and goes up to Scotland"; but he grew at last, I think, the most generally liked of all the members. To those who truly knew and loved him, who had tasted the real sweetness of his nature, Fleeming's porcupine ways had always been a matter of keen regret.
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