Draft letter thanking her for the gift of [
[Rev. C. B. Gibson's]]
History of Cork. Gibson speculates on whether he did indeed have an Irish orgin: a White Boy might have escaped to Scotland, for his great grandfather had come from Scotland to Wales. Gibson goes on to write that he never allowed himself to envy his rivals, and had worked all his life with a calm soul, "pursuing the study of the beautiful with ever new pleasure." He then protests at the fact that his correspondent and her sister [
Julia E. Gibson] had not sent him their photographs. He had sent his own with reluctance and was "handsomer and younger looking than that harsh cruel Photograph". Everyone wanted to be good looking, or even beautiful, but that desire was not vanity, as the angels were all beautiful. Gibson concludes by advocating the attainment of moral beauty, which he describes as the only beauty that could render human beings considerably happy "in this world of perpetual perturbations."