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Title: William De Morgan and his wife
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Stirling, A. M. W. (Anna Maria Wilhelmina)
Subjects: De Morgan, William Frend, 1839-1917 De Morgan, Mrs. (Evelyn) De Morgan family
Publisher: New York : H. Holt and Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ungrudginglyexpending blood and gold. But when he was asked to send alarge consignment of his books to many of the hospitals, heagreed only on the condition that other authors joined in theundertaking— Otherwise, he explained, it would look sobumptious ! This impression was perhaps confirmed by aletter from Mrs. Mackail describing the effect of such a gift toa non-military hospital. Margaret Mackail to Evelyn De Morgan. Thanks for the hospital. Once on my rounds there I approachedthe bed of a man with a bundle of books in my arms and asked him ifhe would like one. He answered, Thank you, I am very well acquaintedwith literature, and have no need of books. I then addressed myself to conversation, and said, rather foolishly,that I always felt sorry for the men being cut off their tobacco while inhospital, for it passed the time. His reply was in these Bible words whichimpressed themselves for ever on an otherwise not retentive memory :— The Old Mans Youth and the Young Mans Old Age.
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Study in Cualk for the Moonbeams Dipping into the SeaEvelyn De Morgan pinxit (In the possession of Mrs. Stirling. I THE YOUNG MANS OLD AGE 369 * Thank you, I have my passions and appetites so completely undercontrol that it is a matter of indifference to me of what pleasure I amdeprived. So then I went on to the next bed hoping that it would be a long timebefore he got well enough to leave, so that his wife might have a realholiday from him. So you see what an excellent hospital it is. Evelyn likewise agreed to have an exhibition in her studioof the series of symbolic War-pictures on which she had beenengaged ; and although at this exhibition none of her workwas for sale, and the money was procured by entrance fees only,she thus secured a considerable sum for the English and ItalianRed Cross charities. Among many letters subsequently receivedby her was the following from an artist, then in his eighty-fifthyear, the senior member of the International Peace Bureau.* Felix Moscheles to E

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