I think it vital that you should have the best legal assistance, and win. Be careful, and don’t let them ‘draw’ you into indiscretions that are most forgiveable morally, but damaging to the cause practically. I don’t the least want to lecture you or assume the Mentor. I only want you to win all along the line. Your aff. brother, T. W. J.-B.” The next is written in a clear and clerkly hand: “Miss Jex-Blake, Ph.D. Edinburgh. Kinbuck, 7 February, 1871. MADAM, We the undersigned desire to express our most sincere sympathy with your cause and earnest hopes for your success. I am, Your obedient Servants,—” Follows a list of four names, apparently of young business men. One wonders which of them conceived the bold idea of the “Ph.D.” How gladly they would have made it “M.D.” if they could! The letter was addressed to “Miss Jex-Blake, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh,” and is grimly endorsed, “Not for Royal Infirmary.” One more letter we are tempted to quote with very mingled feelings: “19 Inverleith Row, Edinburgh. 27 January 1871. MY DEAR MISS JEX-BLAKE, I see that Mr. C. has raised an action against you. If you have not already fixed on a counsel to defend you, will you allow me to propose that you should employ my son-in-law, Mr. Trayner. I propose this, not for his advantage but your own, as I am quite sure from the great interest he would take in your case, and also that I know you would find in him, not only an able advocate, but a kind friend, that you would have no cause to regret the choice. Believe me, dear Miss Jex-Blake, Very truly yours, MARGARET WYLD.” From another source one learns that Mr. Trayner [now Lord Trayner], if employed, would have done the work without fee, from sheer sympathy with the cause. The pity of it! One cannot help feeling how differently things might have gone, if S. J.-B. had availed herself of this suggestion. “The best legal advice” is an expression capable of varied interpretation, and of course S. J.-B.—young and inexperienced—was guided by her solicitors. It is possible, too, of course, that the advice was good. Young and inexperienced she was in matters of this kind,—full of hope that she, who had nothing to hide and everything to gain from full publicity, would see herself substantially justified in an open court of law.