'I shall endeavour to make your situation comfortable from a pecuniary point of view' [from a head-hunting letter]. How I wish an employer would say that to me! I happened to take a copy of the first volume of the history of Moorfields Eye Hospital† down from the shelves while in the Joint Moorfields Eye Hospital & the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology Library today. As well as the quotation I give above, I also found the following:
'I live in a plain and economical style and...you are only to expect a joint of meat and a pudding' [from a letter to John Cunningham Saunders offering him work and lodging]
'He is not a very pleasant lecturer–his voice is low and his manner is very inanimate and uninteresting.' I think we have all known lecturers like that.
† Collins, E. Treacher (Edward Treacher), 1862-1937.: The history & traditions of the Moorfields Eye Hospital : one hundred years of ophthalmic discovery & development / by E. Treacher Collins..
London : H.K. Lewis, 1929..
xi, 226 p., 27 leaves of plates : ill., ports ; 22 cm..