vii.] MARRIED LIFE. 1(55 



Fitz william gives a grand dinner to 200 people ; I am 

 just going to it. 



' Saturday, Sept. 28, 1844. I wrote you very hurriedly 

 yesterday. Thanks to the previous evening's repose and 

 the Archbishop's lozenges, my cold was much better, and 

 I was able to get well through the day. My notice on 

 Glaciers was, I do think, very well received by a " select 

 and fashionable" audience, not to say a learned one, 

 which it was ; and the impression seemed general that 

 viscosity was established. Whewell explained my theory 

 of the Veined Structure and the Frontal Dip very 

 clearly. 



' Monday. My cold is much better; but we had a 

 postponed discussion on Glaciers on Saturday morning, 

 when Hopkins and I did battle, and I am sorry to say I 

 felt it exceedingly ; it discomposed my nerves, and made 

 me very uncomfortable indeed, until I was soothed 

 by the Minster service yesterday, which was beautiful. 

 But I see it will be <juite necessary for a long time to 

 avoid excitement as much as possible. I need hardly say 

 that the discussion was not prolonged by me, but by the 

 re of the Section. T am sure, darling, you would be 

 pleased by the kind way people, not scientific, speak of 

 my book. The two Archdeacon Wilberforces and the 

 Bishop of Ripon are much interested/ 



He had not long returned to Edinburgh when his 

 eldest child, a daughter, was born. It is thus he com- 

 municates the event to one of his dearest friends : 



' October 20-21, 1844. . . . I lose not a moment in 



ng you the joyful news. I pray God that our children 



partake of the alVeetionate bond which unites their 



fathers a Ixmd whi< li, let me say it at this solemn 



moment, will enduiv, I trust, even beyond the grave. 



In the morning I will <rive. you further news. 



'Quarter to one. 1 have just seen my little babe, 

 Mn-li a nice lively little animal.' 



To the same friend, wntinir a month later, he thus 

 expresses his sentiments on first reading the Life of Dr, 



