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They talk of asking the Prince of Wales to become 

 President or Patron of the movement to commemorate 

 his ancestor. The Mayor and people at Winchester 

 wish to have a memorial building there, but everything 

 is open for discussion, and if a Mausoleum of Alfred 

 should be at Winchester — where his dust still lies — I 

 hope myself the commemoration will take a national 

 form, and a varied character. I should like to see an 

 archaeological Wessex museum. You, of course, are a 

 Wessex thane. And the promoters have asked me to 

 see if they can count on your co-operation in time for 

 the Lord Mayor's meeting. — Believe me to be, sincerely 

 yours, Frederic Harrison. 



The summer brought him some more corre- 

 spondence, at great length, from the Palace at 

 Mandalay, invoking his further assistance on 

 behalf of the Kammalahs. His name had be- 

 come a household word in India as much from 

 the circulation of his books as from his interest in 

 the Indian Currency or from any legislation which 

 he had helped to pass. It was in this very year 

 that a Marathi translation came out of the 

 Pleasures of Life, and on one day of this same 

 year he records the curious fact that the same 

 post brought him copies of the Pleasures of Life 

 in two different translations, by different hands, 

 both in Bohemian. 



He was abroad in Switzerland — his last visit 

 to that country — with Lady Lubbock and the 

 children in the summer. They did not return 

 home until September 18, having started on July 

 7. This is the longest holiday — ^if a time is to be 

 so called which was fully occupied with botanical 

 and geological expeditions, in addition to in- 

 dustrious reading indoors — ^that we have yet 

 found him taking. 



