1. Stirling recalled his visit, Tues. 1 Dec., and described JWC as “middle-size, pale, with pleasant quiet voice, pleasant smiling eyes, a good face, hair apparently
still black—spoke but seldom” and TC as a “tall, lank figure, hand an extraordinary bunch of fingers, moustache half-grown,
black still, whisker round chin grizzled at upper edge, cheek ruddy, but this time hectic-like—flush of vigil, and eye of
the lustre and glare of vigil—a general raised look, as of a man with his nervous system in unnatural tension—kind of intellectual animal magnetism, every pore an eye—his
hair grey now, still down on brow, brow struck me as both low and narrow. The face small, oval, and pointing towards chin.”
TC was “accustomed now to receive people who only come to see and hear—prone to prose on dreamily about the places he has
seen, his impressions, etc.” Stirling concluded, “General idea of a pair of good simple human beings, of whom rather remarkable
that so many people in so many different places should be speaking and writing” (Stirling139–40).
