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‎Memories of Old Friends.Being extracts from the Journals and Letters of Caroline Fox of Penjerrick, Cornwall from 1835 to 1871,to which are added fourteen original letters from J. S. Mill never before published ,Edited by Horace N. Pym.‎

‎ Philadelphia,LIPPINCOT 1882. second Edition. Pp [i]-xxvii,(1),[1]-404,(1), + frontis.portrait [by Hubert Herkomer]. Large 8vo,pleine percaline tabac,dos lisse titré,un peu passé,correct‎

‎Caroline Fox was the daughter of Robert Were Fox known for his researches on the temperature and magnetic conditions of the earth, and inventor of the Deflector Dipping Needle "which has since been used in all the Arctic Expeditions." Her journals and letters refer to many famous people in the literary, scientific and Polar Exploration fields, such as Dr. Calvert, Thomas Carlyle, Sir John Franklin, John Stuart MIll, Captain James Ross, Wordsworth, etc. a good copy in a good binding ‎