1873 LETTERS TO DOHRN 115 



strong enough to entertain such a project I wish I could 

 see my way to doing the like. I have had a long bout 

 of illness ever since August but I am now very much 

 better, indeed, I hope I may say quite well. The weari- 

 ness of all this has been complicated by the trouble of getting 

 into a new house, and in addition a lawsuit brought by 

 a knavish neighbour, in the hope of extracting money 

 out of me. 



I am happy to say, however, that he has just been 

 thoroughly and effectually defeated. It has been a new 

 experience for me, and I hope it may be my last as well 

 as my first acquaintance with English law, which is a 

 luxury of the most expensive character. 



If Dr. Kleinenberg is with you, please to tell him, 

 with my compliments and ;hanks for the copy of his 

 Memoir, that I went over Hs Hydra paper pretty care- 

 fully in the summer, and satisfied myself as to the 

 correctness of his statements about the structure of the 

 ectoderm and about the longitudinal fibres. About the 

 Endoderm I am not so clear, and I often found indications 

 of delicate circular fibres in close apposition with the 

 longitudinal ones. However, I had not time to work all 

 this out, and perhaps might as well say nothing 

 about it. 



Pray make my very kind remembrances to Mr. Grant. 

 I trust that his dramas may have a brilliant reception. 



The Happy Family flourishes. But we shall look to 

 your coming to see us. The house is big enough now to 

 give you a bedroom, and you know you will have no lack 

 of a welcome 



I have said nothing about my wife (who has been in 

 a state not only of superhuman, but of superfeminine, 

 activity for the last three months) meaning to leave her 

 the last page to speak for herself. 



With best compliments to the " ladies downstairs," ever 

 yours very faithfully, T. H. HUXLEY. 



