“I always think the monetary part of such matters to be rather—as in case of a physician's fee—the recognition of an insoluble debt, or the algebraic sign of an unknown quantity, than a mercantile correlation of value to value.”
About Sydney Dobell
5 April 1824–22 August 1874
Sydney Thompson Dobell was born on 5 April 1824 at Cranbrook in Kent, into a family whose circumstances placed him close to the commercial and dissenting middle-class culture of provincial England rather than to the aristocratic literary world. His father, Thomas Dobell, was a wine merchant, and the business of…