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plans, and we leave this for Menaggio, Hotel Vittoria, on 

 Thursday next, 6th.^ 



All tlie wiseacres tell us that there are fresher breezes 

 (vento di Lecco) at Menaggio than anywhere else in the 

 Como country, and at anyrate we are going to try 

 whether we can exist there. If it does not answer, we 

 will leave a note for you there to say where we are gone. 

 It would be very jolly to forgather. 



I am sorry to leave this most comfortable of hotels, 

 but I do not think that cold would suit either of us. I 

 am marvellously well so long as I am taking sharp 

 exercise, and I do my nine or ten miles without fatigue. 

 It is only when I am quiet that I know that I have a 

 heart. 



I do not feel at all sure how matters may be 4000 

 feet lower, but what I have gained is all to the good in 

 the way of general health. In spite of aU the bad 

 weather we have had, I have nothing but praise for this 

 place — the air is splendid, excellent walks for invalids, 

 capital drainage, and the easiest to reach of all places 

 6000 feet up. 



My wife sends her love, and thanks Mrs. Foster for 

 her letter, and looks forward to meeting her. — Ever 

 yours, T. H. Huxley. 



Wash yourself clean of all that episcopal contamina- 

 tion or you may infect me ! 



But adverse circumstances prevented the meeting. 



Hotel Kttrsaal, Maloja, 



Sept. 24, 1888. 



My dear Foster — As ill luck would have it, we 

 went over to Pont Eesina to-day (for the first time), and 

 have only just got back (5.30). I have just telegraphed 

 to you. 



^ He did not ultimately leave till the 22ud. 



