Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885

Reid, T. Wemyss (Thomas Wemyss) · 1905

Produced by Robert Connal, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. The sense of personal loss occasioned by my brother's death is still so keen and vivid that if I am to write at all about him--and my duty in that respect is clear--it must be out of the fulness of my heart. My earliest recollections of him begin when I was a child and he was a bright, self-reliant lad in the home at Newcastle, the characteristics of which are with artless realism described in the opening pages of this book. It is the simple truth to say that we grew up in an atmosphere of love and duty. Our father was a man of studious habit, passing rich in the possession of a library of dry works on t…

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