[[1] [p. 241]
He ridiculed, too, the notion of unhealthy places. "It is like," he wrote to Mr. Birch1, "the old idea that every child must have measles, and the sooner the better."
Status: Draft transcription [Published letter (WCP6713.7764)]
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