A Memoire of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell 1

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A memoir of Dr.
     Elizabeth Blackwell. Memoirs are often 
tedious but the picture and sketch of Dr.
Blackwell in the Sunday
Republican has so stirred my
own that "forth I must print
them" - I was a school girl of
fifteen in Geneva when Miss
Blackwell's possible admission
to the Medical College of Geneva
was talked about - The very
select school of Culvertson[?]
and McGregor of which I
was a member was in a
large wooden building nearly
adjoining the substantial brick
building Medical College - on Main St
The horde of students passing up
and down to their lectures were