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PREFACE.
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"eighty or ninety" pounds, for his homeward journey from Mr. Pattison in London; but as eighteen was all that was required to make up the passage money, "eighteen or nineteen" would seem the more likely sum.

He alludes also in this letter to "prejudices" against the "Christians" and meditations upon the "low character" of the English, as if these were shared by Dr. Joshee; hut this we all know was not possible.

One day, soon after her arrival in America, Anandabai amused herself at Roselle by writing her own "mental photograph" in one of the Albums commonly sold for that purpose. The student of psychology will be interested in comparing this suggestive sketch with the "psychometric impression" elsewhere alluded to.

In a letter written since his wife's death Mr. Joshee thus alludes to the contents of the eleven trunks which Anandabai carried back to India.

"I have given the contents of Dr. Joshee's boxes to an English school, the founder of which Dr. Joshee greatly admired. They are arranged in a nice glass case and I hope they will be better cared for than they could be by me. It was a painful thing to see them all again."