Thursday, August 10, 2023
Precocity
Julia Parry, The Shadowy Third: Love, Letters & Elizabeth Bowen (Richmond: Duckworth, 2021), p. 272:
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But Humphry [House] had a son at last—one to treasure and keep close. [….] This pleasure spilled over later into Humphry's educational programme. In a move that mirrored the teaching Hartley Coleridge received from his poet father, John knew the Greek alphabet by the age of two.Hat tip: Eric Thomson.
