BLACKWELL FAMILY
KITTY BARRY
ROBINSON, LILLIAN A.Robinson
Villa Daumas,
Town Hill,
Maritzburg
July 2 - 10
My dear Miss Barry
I must write by
this mail to tell you how
very heartily I sympathise with
you in your great loss. Dr.
Blackwell in my mind ranks
with Florence Nightingale in her
life's work. I always felt jealous
for her that others who look up
her work later made themselvesmore prominent in the public
eye.  She was our Pioneer and 
but for her the movement might
never have been started.
Do write some and tell me
what your plans are.
I do hope there will be some
public memorial to Dr. Blackwell
at the Medical School or the 
Women's Hospital.  Let me know

if any fund is started.
I am always proud to think I 
was one of Dr. Blackwell's many
medical god-daughters.
     With my warmest sympathy &
in much affection.
          I remain
          yours very sincerely,
          Lillian Austin Robinson.
 [Villa Daumas,
Town Hill,
Maritzburg.]
381 Shuefrane[?] Road
Leinbau [?]
Natal.
Oct 2. 10
My dear Miss Barry
     Thank you sincerely
for your most delightful letter
and the photos.  Do let me
have a copy of the one taken by
Elliot & Fry if you will be so 
good.  You know I am Dr. Blackwell's
Medical god-daughter and 
since I was seventeen the impress

-mest greetings
               Lillian Austin Robinsonof her personally has been over 
my whole life.  I don't suppose for
one moment I should have chosen
medicine as a profession, or 
in fact any profession at all, 
if I had not met my heroine at
the most impressionable age.
If I am ever able to write a book
I shall try to embody some of Dr.
Blackwell's wonderful life in it.
If you will let me have an address
I will send you a copy of a recent

photograph of Forbes taken with
me.  I have only had the proofs so
far.
I should like to contribute to the 
window very much.  Please let me 
know when the subscription list
is open.  Don't go away from England 
till these things are settled if you 
can help it.  People so soon forget.
I have just moved down to [Semban?]
and hope to make it my home
instead of Maritzburg.  My brother
has an office here and will makeit his head-quarters if I am here.
I have taken a most delightful
house, on the very top of the ridge
called the Berea.  We can see the
open sea and also the anchorage
 and Bay.  There is a lovely garden
and a wide verandah which 
gets the full sea breeze.  The
four children have come with us.
The eldest is Forbes, six in June!
He has quite made up his mind
to be a doctor and knows quite
a lot about "bones" already.
Do write to me again soon and 
send the photo you so kindly offer 
& your new address
                               Yours with war[mest]