Second and Third Visits to England. 2 1 3 



the time the sea has been quiet. I have not been seasick a 

 moment nor missed a single meal. Kitty has had the best 

 voyage she has yet had on the Atlantic, having been up 

 every day, though she has been but little at table. I have 

 read some — indeed, considerably — and somewhat warmed 

 myself up for my work, but at the expense of a reputation 

 of great unsociability, which has made it unpleasant for me. 

 The only men of note on board are two sons of Cambridge, 

 Harvard College — Prof. Torrey, of the chair of History, 

 and Prof. Bowen, of Metaphysics, Ethics, and Political 

 Economy. I have somewhat made their acquaintance, and 

 find it agreeable. They run over for their vacation. We 

 learned by the pilot this morning that the war is precipi- 

 tated in Germany and reform scuttled in England. You, 

 of course, will have the particulars, and perhaps as soon as 

 we do. We expect to reach Liverpool to-night, perhaps 

 by twelve or one o'clock, and leave for London to-morrow 

 morning — Friday — by the 9.30 train. 



London, July 7, 1866. 

 Dear Sister : . . . I inclose a note received last night 

 from Spencer. I shall telegraph him to-day, to learn the 

 place and hour of his arrival, and meet him and invite him 

 here,* as there is plenty of room. I called on Williams 

 [of the firm of Williams cSe: Norgate, publishers of Mr. 

 Spencer's books] this morning. 



London, Friday, July /j, 1S66. 

 My dear Sister : . . . I think I sent you the note in 

 which Spencer announced his coming to town. I tele- 

 graphed him to meet him, but he replied that he did not 

 know at what hour he should arrive. Next day he sent 



* To the boarding house kept by a Mrs. Langford, from which Youmans 

 was writing. Mr. Spencer had left 88 Kensington Gardens Square, and 

 had not yet gone to 37 Queens Gardens, Bayswater, where he lived so 

 many years. 



