CHAPTER VII 



1890-1891 



Three letters of the first half of the year may 

 conveniently be placed here. The first is to Tyndall, 

 who had just been delivering an anti-Gladstonian 

 speech at Belfast. The opening reference must be 

 to some newspaper paragraph which I have not been 

 able to trace, just as the second is to a paragraph 

 in 1876, not long after Tyndall's marriage, which 

 described Huxlev as startincj for America with his 

 titled bride. 



3 Jevingtox Gardens, Eastbotjeke, 



Feb. 24, 1S90. 



My dear Ttndall. — Put down the three half-pints 

 and the two dozen to the partnership account. Ever since 

 the " titled bride " business I have given up the struggle 

 against the popular belief that you and I constitute a 

 firm. 



Ifs very hard on me in the decline of life to have 

 a lively yoimg partner who thinks nothing of rushing 

 six or seven hundred miles to perform a war-dance on 

 the sainted G.O.M., and takes the scalp of Historicus as 

 a Iwrs d^oeuvre. 



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