Memoir and Letters (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Hopkinson, Rudolf Cecil

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ISBN 10: 1330737393 ISBN 13: 9781330737392

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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When an Alpine accident deprived him of his father, two of his sisters and a brother, he was seven years old, too young to realise, in an ordinary way, the tragedy. The gloom thus caused was irksome and unnatural to him, and it was by way of a protest against it as well as to give expression to an irrepressible pleasure that, in a long silence during the lunch after the funeral, he exclaimed in his loud, childish voice to his sister: I say Nelly, isn't this pudding nice? But that he did appreciate what the loss meant to his mother was unmistakably shown by the messages which he wrote on pages torn from his little notebook, and passed to her during the homeward journey. The story of these missives is told in what she has written about him. They were the greatest comfort that any human being could give and were brought with a happy, natural simplicity, without any special demonstration. He always liked to have a note book and tried to use it methodically, though he was never a tidy boy. When his scientific propensities were developing and he started collecting butterflies, the entry appeared in one of his books: Saw two brimstones to-day, a he and a she. Another, when he was not more than nine or ten years old, reads: This book belongs to R. C. Hopkinson, - not him but his brother is. This was some years before the brother had become a Fellow. The child had a profound and enduring admiration for his brother. Once, when the mother was commenting with vexation on the dirty, untidy state of the room set aside as her eldest son's laboratory, Cecil stopped her by saying: Let me remind you that Bertie has done very good work in this room!

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Rudolf Cecil Hopkinson was born at Holmwood, Wimbledon Common, on July 10th, 1891. He was the sixth and youngest child of his parents. From both of them he had the advantage of unblemished heritage and high example. His father's name is among the great ones of Science. There was no great difference in age among his elder brothers and sisters; but there was a gap of eleven years between him and the one before. His advent, therefore, was a great experience to the rest of the family, particularly to his three sisters, enthusiastic school girls, who lavished observation and devotion on him. Thus he had more than the ordinary share of baby worship. It made little conscious difference to him. He accepted it as part of his daily life. It did not spoil him in the ordinary sense of the word, though it may have increased the old-fashioned, absent-minded tendencies which were his as a child. It also may have developed his very sweet temper and his extreme reasonableness, since he was seldom treated crossly or unreasonably and seldom behaved so. He was quite aware of his importance; yet it was in no spirit of arrogance that, on an occasion in his fourth or fifth year, when a cousin knocked him down, he said gravely, without any anger: "You must not do that; I am too precious." This detached impersonal view of himself was a characteristic which lasted throughout his life. It was exemplified before he won the famous long distance ski-ing race in Switzerland for the "Roberts of Kandahar" challenge cup in 1911.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1330737393
• ISBN 13: 9781330737392
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 196