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be outdone, promptly replied with " My dear Lord 

 Bishop of the Solent." 



About the same time comes a letter to Mr. Knowles, 

 based upon a paragraph from the gossiping column 

 of some newspaper which had come into Huxley's 

 hands : — 



HoDESLEA, Eastbourne, 

 Nov. 9, 1893. 



Gossip of the Town. 



"Professor Huxley receives 200 guineas for each, of his 

 articles for the Nineteenth Century." 



Mt dear Knowles — I have always been satisfied with 

 the Nineteenth Century in the capacity of paymaster, but 

 I did not know how much reason I had for my satisfaction 

 till I read the above ! 



Totting up the number of articles and multiplying by 

 200 it strikes me I shall be behaving very handsomely if 

 I take £2000 for the balance due. 



So sit down quickly, take thy cheque-book, and write 

 five score, and let me have it at breakfast time to-morrow. 

 I once got a cheque for £1000 at breakfast, and it ruined 

 me morally. I have always been looking out for another. 



I hope you are all flourishing. We are the better for 

 Maloja, but more dependent on change of weather and 

 other trifles than could be wished. Yet I find myself 

 outlasting those who started in life along with me. Poor 

 Andrew Clark and I were at Haslar together in 1846, 

 and he was the younger by a year and a half. — Ever yours 

 very faithfully, T. H. Huxley. 



All my time is spent in the co-ordination of my 

 eruptions when I am an active volcano. 



I hope you got the volumes which I told Macmillan 

 to send you. 



