i88 3 LETTER TO MRS. TYNDALL 69 



4 MARYBOROUGH PLACE, May 10, 1883. 



MY DEAR MRS. TYNDALL If you will give me a bit of 

 mutton at one o'clock I shall be very much your debtor, but as 

 I have business to attend to afterwards at the Home Office I 

 must stipulate that my intellect be not imperilled by those seduc- 

 tive evil genii who are apt to make their appearance at your 

 lunch table.* 



M. is getting better, but I cannot let her be out at night yet. 

 She thinks she is to be allowed to go to the International Ex- 

 hibition business on Saturday; but if the temperature does not 

 rise very considerably I shall have two words to say to that. 

 Ever yours very sincerely, T. H. HUXLEY. 



I shall be alone. Do you think that I am " subdued to that I 

 work in," and like an oyster, carry my brood about beneath my 

 mantle ? 



* This is accompanied by a sketch of a champagne bottle in the 

 character of a demon. 



