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to Mr. Hyde Clarke, the philologist and, like himself, 

 a member of the Ethnological Society, he writes : 



(Nov. 18, 1873) I am glad to learn two things from 

 your note first, that you are getting better ; second, that 

 there is hope of some good coming out of that Ashantee 

 row, if only in the shape of rare vocables. 



My attention is quite turned away from Anthropological 

 matters at present, but I will bear your question in mind 

 if opportunity offers. 



A letter to Professor Kolleston at Oxford gives a 

 lively account of his own ailments, which could only 

 have been written by one now recovering from them, 

 while the illness of another friend raised a delicate 

 point of honour, which he laid before the judgment 

 of Mr. Darwin, more especially as the latter had been 

 primarily concerned in the case. 



4 MARLBOROUQH PLACE, 

 Oct. 16, 1873. 



MY DEAR ROLLESTON A note which came from Mrs. 

 Rolleston to my wife the other day, kindly answering 

 some inquiries of ours about the Oxford Middle Class 

 Examination, gave us but a poor account of your health. 



This kind of thing won't do, you know. Here is 



ill, and I doing all I can to persuade him to go 



away and take care of himself, and now comes ill news of 

 you. 



Is it dyspeps again ? If so follow in my steps. I 

 mean to go about the country, with somebody who can 

 lecture, as the "horrid example" cured. Nothing but 

 gross and disgusting intemperance, Sir, was the cause of 

 all my eviL And now that I have been a teetotaller for 

 nine months, and have cut down my food supply to 

 about half of what I used to eat, the enemy is beaten. 



