. 53.] TO R. W. CHURCH. 595 



The winter Dr. Gray spent in Egypt, in 1869, lie 

 raised a full beard, which so changed his appearance 

 that, though eyes and voice were there, his oldest 

 friends did not know him on his return, and he had 

 great glee in imposing himself on his old friend Dr. 

 Torrey, when he went to the station to meet him in 

 Boston, as a persistent hack-driver. Even when he 

 declared himself, Dr. Torrey would scarcely believe 

 him ; he and Professor Henry always maintained a 

 man had no lawful right so to change his outward 

 appearance after middle age. 



TO R. W. CHURCH. 



KEW, October 6, 1869. 



... A week ago Saturday Mrs. G. and I went down 

 via Warwick to Stratford-on-Avon, where we had 

 never been, with Professor Flower, 1 to visit his father 

 and mother, whose house (almost always thronged by 

 Americans), a short mile out of Stratford, commands 

 one of the most charming and wholly English views 

 (that of English landscape-painters). On Monday 

 morning Loring and the girls, who had passed the Sun- 

 day at Warwick, drove down and took us up, and we 

 saw the Shakespeare memorials, even to Anne Hatha- 

 way's cottage (all but myself, who studied brewing in- 

 stead), and back to " The Hill ' for a lunch-dinner. 

 Then they took my wife and departed to pass night 

 and next day at Warwick. At evening I went by a 

 direct train to Oxford to sleep, seeing first Pro- 

 fessor Rolleston 2 for a moment. And, breakfasting 



1 Sir William Henry Flower, M. D., London ; curator of the Hun- 

 terian Museum. Succeeded Owen as director of the British Museum 

 of Natural History. 



2 George Rolleston, M. D., 1829-1881 ; professor of anatomy and 

 physiology at Oxford. 



