170 THE REV. J. G. WOOD. 



I sincerely trust that we may be able to make arrangements by 

 which you shall continue to give lectures here, as they are popular 

 with all classes. 



Yours faithfully, 



(Signed) S. FLOOD PAGE, 

 Manager. 



Besides this course at the Crystal Palace, a series of 

 lectures were also in progress at two schools at Upper 

 Norwood, an arrangement being made by which my 

 father delivered a lecture at each on every Saturday in 

 term-time when he happened to be at home. And so, 

 when, after a second course of six lectures at the 

 Winter Gardens of Southport, exclusively upon marine 

 subjects, the season came to an end, no less than one 

 hundred and twenty-one lectures had been given in all,, 

 as against seventy-four in 1880-81, and eighty-three 

 in 1879-80. This was the busiest year that my father 

 ever had, as far as the number of lectures was con- 

 cerned, although in several subsequent seasons the 

 amount of travelling involved was considerably greater. 



Yet it would be a great mistake to suppose that the 

 profits, even of so successful a season, were very large. 

 I do not think that, at any rate in this country, my 

 father ever received more than ten guineas for a single 

 lecture; and his average gross fee certainly did not 

 exceed half that amount. ISTow when from five guineas. 

 has to be deducted the cost of perhaps one hundred and 

 fifty miles' railway travelling, with a hundred-weight at 

 least of excess luggage, the expense of cabs, tips to hall- 

 keepers and porters, and the agent's fee, to say nothing 



