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RENEWED ILL-HEALTH 65 



Once more, many thanks for a great pleasure. 



My wife sends her love. — Ever yours very faithfully, 



T. H. Huxley. 



Meanwhile, he had been making no progress 

 towards health ; indeed, was going slowly downhill. 

 He makes fun of his condition when writing to 

 condole with Mr. Spencer on falling ill again after 

 ;he unwonted spell of activity already mentioned ; 

 Dut a few weeks later discovered the cause of his 

 tveakness and depression in an affection of the heart, 

 rhis was not immediately dangerous, though he 

 looked a complete wreck. His letters from April 

 inwards show how he was forced to give up almost 

 3very form of occupation, and even to postpone his 

 visit to Switzerland, until he had been patched up 

 snough to bear the journey. 



Casalini, West Cliff, Bournemouth, 

 March 9, 1888. 



Mt dear Spexcer — I am very sorry to hear from 

 Hooker that you have been unwell again. You see if 

 young men from the coimtry will go plunging into the 

 dissipations of the metropolis nemesis follows. 



Until two days ago, the weathercocks never over- 

 stepped N. on the one side and E. on the other ever since 

 you left. Then they went west with sunshine and most 

 enjoyable softness — but next S. with a gale and rain — all 

 ablowin' and agrowin' at this present. 



I have nothing to complain of so long 51s I do nothing ; 

 but although my hair has grown with its usual rapidity I 

 differ from Samson in the absence of a concurrent return 

 of strength. Perhaps that is because a male hairdresser, 



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