1892 LETTERS 259 



To HIS Daughter, Mrs. Roller 



HODESLEA, EaSTBOTTRNE, 



3Iay 5, 1892. 



It was very pleasant to get your birthday letter and 

 tlie photograph, which is charming. 



The love yon children show us, warms our old age 

 better than the sun. 



For myself, the sting of remembering troops of follies 

 and errors, is best alleviated by the thought that they 

 may make me better able to help those who have to go 

 through like experiences, and who are so dear to me that 

 I would willingly pay an even heavier price, to be of use. 

 Depend upon it, that confounded "just man who needed 

 no repentance " was a very poor sort of a father. But 

 perhaps his daughters were "just women" of the same 

 type ; and the family circle as warm as the interior of an 

 ice-paiL 



A certain artist, who wanted to have Huxley sit 

 to him, tried to manage the matter through his son- 

 in-law, Hon. J. Collier, to whom the following is 

 addressed : — 



HoDESLEA, Eastbourne, 

 Jan. 27, 1892. 



My dear Jack — Inclosed is a letter for you. Will 

 you commit the indiscretion of sending it on to Mr. A. B. 

 if you see no reason to the contrary ? 



I hope the subsequent proceedings will interest you 

 no more. 



I am sorry you have been so bothered by the critter — 

 but in point of pertinacity he has met his match. (I 

 have no objection to your saying that your father-in-law 

 is a brute, if you think that will soften his disappoint- 

 ment.) 



