Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875, Dulcken, H. W. (Henry William), 1832-1894, Bayes, Alfred Walter, 1832-1909, ill · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 778
id in this letterthat I considered myself too dull a person to be ever able to study, andasked his advice as to what course I should take ; for it seemed to methat the money spent for me in Copenhagen was being thrown away.The excellent man strengthened me with gentle words, and wrote me ahearty… … told me that he himself had begun his studies as a peasant lad of threeand twenty, consequently older than I; that my misfortune was, thatI required a course different from that followed by the other pupils—athing not to be done in a school; and that really I was pushing forward,and stood well with…
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