298 LETTERS TO PROFESSOR WALLACE [CHAP. xxiv. 



chill, but I was up again yesterday, and hope to be just as 

 usual in a day or two. I shall be so very glad to see you. 

 Please fix your own time, and if you would tell me a little 

 beforehand, I would try to get General and Mrs. Bigge to 

 come to lunch. He I think knew Sir Wm. Muir in India, 

 when he (General Bigge) was in military command. He 

 would of all things enjoy a talk with you about horses. 



One day (if you please that is) we would drive over to 

 Batch Wood to tea, and Lord Grimthorpe will certainly 

 come in and have a chat if he be well enough. In a 

 parenthesis, would you care to drive over to Rothamsted ? 

 I know Sir Henry and Lady Gilbert and Mr. Warington. 



I shall so like to be able to have a good quiet talk with 

 you about various of my plans. I feel (may I be forgiven 

 if I am too presumptuous) that now I have a real scientific 

 home, and though I would not for the world intrude, I may 

 I think ask my good colleague's advice. As you will be 

 here so soon I think I had best not write to Sir W. Muir, as 

 he kindly gave me leave to do, about my father's set of 

 volumes of drawings. When you come you will guide my 

 views as to whether they would be what might be liked for 

 acceptance. 



April 23, 1900. 



I am doing just as you bid me, and after a little look at 

 Mr. Carton's paper, 1 which I am sure must contain a deal 

 of solidly valuable information, I have laid it aside to wait 

 your helpful guidance. I have a letter just now from Dr. 

 Fream saying he would like very much to come to meet 

 you (as I begged him), but cannot manage it. I am looking 

 forward exceedingly to much useful and pleasant talk. I 

 generally go to church at St. Michael's (where Lord Bacon 

 is buried) in the morning, but there is much good music at 

 the Abbey close by, and you would do everything I hope 

 just exactly as you like best. Yours very sincerely, 



ELEANOR A. ORMEROD. 



1 " On the Production of New Breeds of Crop Plants by Multiple 

 Cross-fertilisation." 



