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HoDESLEA, May 12, 1891. 



My dear Foster — I was very glad to hear from you. 

 Pray don't get attempting to do anytliing before you are 

 set up agaim 



I am in a ridiculous state of weakness, and bless my 

 stars that I have nothing to do. I find it troublesome to 

 do even that. 



I wLsh ballooning had advanced so far as to take 

 people to Maloja, for I do not think my wdfe ought to 

 undertake such a journey, and yet I believe the high air 

 would do us both more good than anything else. . . . 



The University of London scheme appears to be coming 

 to grief, as I never doubted it would. — Ever yours, 



T. H. Huxley. 



So instead of going abroad, he stayed in East- 

 bourne till the end of Angust, receiving a short visit 

 from his old friend Jowett, who, though sadly en- 

 feebled by age, still persisted in travelling by himself, 

 and a longer \'isit from his elder son and his family. 

 But from September 11 to the 26th he and his wife 

 made a trip through the west country, starting from 

 Salisbury, which had so delighted him the year before, 

 and proceeding by way of the Wye valley, which they 

 had not visited since their honeymoon, to Llangollen. 

 The first stage on the retui-n joxu-ney was Chester, 

 whence they made pious pilgrimage to the cradle of 

 his name, Old Huxley Hall, some nine miles from 

 Chester. Incorporated with a modern farm-house, 

 and forming the present kitchen, are some solid stone 

 walls, part of the old manor-house, now no longer 

 belonging to any one of the name. From here they 

 went to Coventry, where he had lived as a boy, and 



