CHAPTER XVIII 



SECOND MARRIAGE (1883-1884) 



(Age 49-50) 



A penalty that Sir John Lubbock rather 

 naturally had to suffer as the result of taking 

 the Ancient Monuments so specially under his 

 personal care, was that of being approached 

 from all sides with requests that he should 

 use his influence for the protection of this 

 or the other work of historic interest. We 

 hardly need to be assured that he paid most 

 careful attention and gave generous response to 

 all appeals on a subject which touched him so 

 closely. Readers of Tom Brown's Schooldays 

 will not have forgotten the time-honoured cere- 

 mony of the " Scouring of the White Horse." 

 It is by the author of the great picture of school- 

 boy life that the following letter was addressed 

 to Sir John : 



Bedford Street, Covent Garden, 



15/1/83. 



Dear Lubbock — I forget whether the White Horse 

 was scheduled to your Ancient Monuments Bill. If not, 

 your machinery may possibly be able to reach it ; if 

 yes, pray have it looked to. I was startled and angered 

 3 weeks since in passing Uffington on the G.W.Ry., 

 to see that it was invisible to any eye except one, like 



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