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I am in rather a shaky and voiceless condition, and 

 unless I am more up to the mark to-morrow morning I 

 shaU have to forgo the dinner, and, what is worse, the 

 chat with you afterwards. 



One consequence of the spring attack of influenza 

 was that this year he went once more to the Maloja, 

 staying there from July 21 to August 25. 



HODESLEA, EaSTBOTTRNE, 



July 9, 1893. 



My dear Hooker — What has happened to the x 

 meeting you proposed ? However, it does not matter 

 much to me now, as Hames, who gave me a thorough 

 overhauling in London, has packed me off to the Maloja 

 again, and we start, if we can, on the 17th. 



It is a great nuisance, but the dregs of influenza and 

 the hot weather between them have brought the weakness 

 of my heart to the front, and I am gravitating to the 

 condition in which I was five or six years ago. So I 

 must try the remedy which was so effectual last time. 



We are neither of us very fit, and shall have to be 

 taken charge of by a courier. Fancy coming to that ! 



Let me be a warning to you, my dear old man. Don't 

 go giving lectures at Oxford and making speeches at 

 Cambridge, and above all things don't, oh don't go getting 

 influenza, the microbes of which would be seen under a 

 strong enough microscope to have this form. 



[Sketch of an active little black demon.] 



T. H. Huxley. 



Though not so strikingly as before, the high Alpine 

 air was again a wonderful tonic to him. His diary 

 still contains a note of occasional long walks ; and 

 once more he was the centre of a circle of friends, 

 whose cordial recollections of their pleasant intercourse 



