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wbal a waste of time for a man who has not much to 

 look to. No ; " waste " is the wrong word ; it's useful, 

 but I wish that somebody else would do it and leave me 

 to my bookd. 



My wife desires her kind regards. I am happy to say 

 she is now remarkably well. If you are this way, pray 

 look in at our Hermitage. — Yours very faithfully, 



T. H. Huxley. 



HODESLEA, EaSTBOTJBNE, 



Jan. 30, 1891. 



My dear Hooker — I trust I have done with Booth 

 and Co. at last. What an ass a man is to try to prevent 

 his fellow-creatures from being humbugged ! Surely I 

 am old enough to know better. I have not been so well 

 abused for an age. It's quite like old times. 



And now I have to settle accounts with the duke and 

 the G.O.M. I wonder when the wicked will let me be at 

 peace. — Ever yours ali'ectionately, T. H. Hdxley. 



Other letters touch upon the politics of the hour, 

 especially upon the sudden and dramatic fall of 

 Parnell. He could not but admire the power and 

 determination of the man, and his political methods, 

 an admiration rashly interpreted by some journalist 

 as admiration of the objects to which these political 

 methods were applied. (See ii. 441.) 



Grand Hotel, Eastbourne, 

 Nov. 26, 1890. 



My dear Lecky — Very many thanks for your two 

 volumes, which I rejoice to have, especially as a present 

 from you. I was only waiting until we were settled in 

 our new house — as I hope we shall be this time next 

 week — to add them to the set which already adorn my 



