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the notoriousest and plain-spoken wickedness. My wife 

 and I drove over to Dolgelly yesterday — do you know it 1 

 one of the loveliest things in the three kingdoms — and 

 every now and then had a laugh over this very quaint 

 aspect of the affair. 



Can you tell me what I shall have to do in the dim 

 and distant future ? I suppose I shall have to go and 

 swear somewhere (I am always ready to do that on 

 occasion). Is admission to the awful presence of H.M. 

 involved ? Shall I have to rig up again in that Court 

 suit, which I hoped was permanently laid up in lavender ? 

 Eesolve me these things. 



We shall be here I expect at least another week ; and 

 bring up at Gloucester about the 3rd September. Hope 

 to get back to Hodeslea latter part of September. — Ever 

 yours faithfully. T. H. Huxley. 



To Sir J. D, Hooker 



Aug. 20. 

 You will have seen that I have been made a P.C. If 

 I had been offered to be made a police constable I could 

 not have been more flabbergasted than I was when the 

 proposition came to me a few weeks ago. I ^vill tell you 

 the story of how it all came about when we meet. The 

 Archbishopric of Canterbury is the only object of ambition 

 that remains to me. Come and be Suffragan ; there is 

 plenty of room at Lambeth and a capital garden ! 



To his Youngest Daughter 



Cobs-t-Gedol Hotel, Barmouth, 

 Aug. 22, 1892. 



Dearest Babs — If Lord Salisbury had known my 

 address, M and I should have had our little joke out 



