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Just turn it over in your mind — there's a dear good 

 fellow — just as if you hadn't any other occupations. 



With which eminently reasonable and unselfish request 

 believe me — Ever yours, T. H. H. 



BouRNEMOTJTH, April 10, 1888. 



My dear Foster — I send by this post the last — I 

 bope for your sake and for that of the recording angel — 

 Df .1 I agree to all Brady's suggestions. 



With all our tinkering I feel inclined to wind up the 

 iffair after the manner of Mr. Shandy's summing [up] of 

 the discussion about Tristram's breeches — " And when he 

 lias got 'em he'll look a beast in 'em." — Ever yours, 



T. H. H. 



April 12. To the same : — 



I am quite willing to remain at the M.B.A. till the 

 Dpening. If Evans will be President I shall be happy. 



■ — is a very good man, but you must not expect too 



much of the "wild-cat" element, which is so useful in 

 ;he world, in him. 



I am disgusted with myself for letting everything go 

 by the run, but there is no help for it. The least thing 

 bowls me over just now. 



Casalini, West Cliff, Bournemouth, 

 April 12, 1888. 



My dear Hooker — I plead not guilty.^ It was 

 igreed at the last meeting that there should be none in 

 April — I suppose by reason of Easter, so I sent no notice. 

 This is what Frankland told me in his letter of the 2nd. 

 Bowever, I see you were present, so I can't make it out. 



^ The " Heathen Deutscheree " of p. 58. A paper of his, 

 contributed to the Royal Society, had been under revision. 



- In the matter of sending out no notices for a meeting of the 

 B Club. 



