I am most thankful to Almighty Providence for mercies received, and determined still to press the case into public notice as a token of gratitude.
“My parents took an interest in nothing, at home no books, no records. My mother and my father are the emblem of indifference, dryness and bad taste. My father is also terribly stingy, in life as well as in feelings: I have never seen him filling up the bathtub.”