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And acrain to Sir M. Foster : — 



'"O" 



You cannot be more sorry than I am that I am going 

 to Manchester, but I am not proud of chalking up " no 

 popery" and running away — for all Evans' and your 

 chaff — and, having done a good deal to stir up the 

 Technical Education business and the formation of the 

 Association, I cannot leave them in the lurch when they 

 urgently ask for my services. . . . 



The Delta business must wait till after the 30th. I 

 have no heart for anything just now. 



The letters following were written in answer to 

 letters of sympathy. 



85 Makina, St. Leonards, 

 Nov. 25, 1887. 



My dear Mr. Clodd — Let me thank you on my 

 wife's behalf and luy own for your very kind and 

 sympathetic letter. 



My poor child's death is the end of more than three 

 years of suffering on her part, and deep anxiety on ours. 

 I suppose we ought to rejoice that the end has come, on 

 the whole, so mercifully. But I find that even I, who 

 knew better, hoped against hope, and my poor wife, who 

 was unfortunately already very ill, is quite heart-broken. 

 Otherwise, she would have replied herself to your very 

 kind letter. 



She has never yet learned the art of sparing herself, 

 and I find it hard work to teach her. — Ever yours very 

 faithfully, T. H. Huxley. 



In the same strain he writes to Dr. Dyster : — 



Rationally we must admit that it is best so. But then, 

 whatever Linnasus may say, man is not a rational animal 

 — especially in his parental capacity. 



