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the writers of his school with whom I have met. But it 

 is rather cool of you to talk of his pitching into Spencer 

 when you are chief target yourself. I come in only par 

 parenthdse, and I am glad to see that people are beginning 

 to understand my real position, and to separate me from 

 such raging infidels as you and Spencer. Ever thine, 



T. H. HUXLEY. 



He was unable to attend the opening of Owens 

 College this autumn, and having received but a scanty 

 account of the proceedings, wrote as follows : 



4 MARLBOROTJGH PLACE, LONDON, N.W., 

 Oct. 16, 1873. 



My DEAR EOSCOE I consider myself badly used. No- 

 body has sent me a Manchester paper with the proceedings 

 of the day of inauguration, when, I hear, great speeches 

 were made. 



I did get two papers containing your opening lecture, 

 and the " Fragment of a Morality," for which I am duly 

 grateful, but two copies of one day's proceedings are not 

 the same thing as one copy of two days' proceedings, and 

 I consider it is very disrespectful to a Governor (large G) 

 not to let him know what went on. 



By all accounts which have reached me it was a great 

 success, and I congratulate you heartily. I only wish 

 that I could have been there to see. Ever yours very 

 faithfully, T. H. HUXLEY. 



The autumn brought a slow improvement in 

 health 



I am travelling (he writes) between the two stations of 

 dyspepsia and health thus (illustrated by a zigzag with 

 " mean line ascending "). 



The sympathy of the convalescent appears in 

 various letters to friends who were ill. Thus, in reply 



