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HoDESLEA, Eastbourne, 

 February 8, 1895. 



My dear Knowles — Your telegram came before I 

 had looked at to-day's Times and the article on Balfour's 

 book, so I answered with hesitation. 



Now I am inclined to think that the job may be well 

 worth doing, in that it will give me the opportunity of 

 emphasising the distinction between the view I hold and 

 Spencer's, and perhaps of proving that Balfour is an 

 agnostic after my own heart. So please send the book. 



Only if this infernal weather, which shrivels me up 

 soul and body, lasts, I do not know how long I may be 

 over the business. However, you lell me to take my 

 own time. — Ever youi's very faithfully, 



T. H. Huxley. 



HoDESLEA, Eastbourne, 

 February 18, 1895. 



My dear Knowles — I send you by this post an 

 instalment (the larger moiety) of my article, which I 

 should be glad to have set up at once in slip, and sent 

 to me as speedily as may be. The rest shall follow in 

 the course of the next two or three days. 



I am rather pleased with the thing myself, so it is 

 probably not so very good ! But you will judge for 

 yourself. — Ever yours very faithfully, T. H. Huxley. 



HoDisLEA, Eastbourne, 

 February 19, 1895. 



My dear Knowles — We send our best congratulations 

 to Mrs. Knowles and yourself on the birth of a grand- 



those long weeks of debility make me very sliy of the influenza 

 demon. Here we are jiractically isolated. ... I once asked 

 Gordon why he didn't have the African fever. ' Well,' he said, 

 ' you see, fellows think they shall have it, and they do. I didn't 

 think so, and didn't get it.' Exercise your thinking faculty to 

 that extent." 



