82 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY chap. iV 



and seemed to hear an inward voice say, " Don't go 

 to Stuttgart and Nuremberg; go straight home." 

 All he did was to make a note of the occurrence 

 and carry out his original plan, whereupon nothing 

 happened. 



The following to his youngest daughter, who had 

 gone back earlier from the Maloja, refers to her 

 success in winning the prize for modelling at the 

 Slade School of Art. 



SCHWEITZERHOF, NeUHATTSEN, 



Oct. 7, 1888. 



Dearest Babs — I will sit to you like " Pater on a 

 monument smiling at grief" for the medallion- As to 

 the photographs, I will try to get them done to order 

 either at Stuttgart or Nm-emberg, if we stay at either 

 place long enough. But I am inclined to think they 

 had better be done at home, and then you could adjust 

 the length of the caoutchouc visage to suit your artistic 

 convenienca 



We have been crowing and flapping our wings over 

 the medal and trimmings. The only thing I lament is 

 that " your father's influence " was not brought to bear ; 

 there is no telling what you might have got if it had 

 been. Thoughtless — very ! ! 



So sorry we did not come here instead of stopping 

 at Kagatz. The falls are really fine, and the sur- 

 rounding country a wide tableland, with the great snowy 

 peaks of the Oberland on the horizon. Last evening 

 we had a brilliant sunset, and the mountains were 

 lighted up with the most delicate rosy blush you can 

 imagine. 



To-day it rains cats and dogs again. You will have 

 seen in the papers that the Ehine and the Aar and the 



