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only verbal trimming, I should like to have it set up in 

 type. For it is a defect of mine that I can never judge 

 properly of any composition of my own in manuscript. 



Moreover (don't swear at this wish) I should very 

 much like to send it to you in that shape for criticism. 



The Life will be an easy business. I should like to 

 get the book out of hand before Christmas, and will do 

 so if possible. But my lectures begin on Tuesday, and I 

 cannot promise. Ever yours very faithfully, 



T. H. HUXLEY. 



Oct. 21, 1878. 



MY DEAR MORLEY I have received slips up to chap. 

 ix. of Hume, and so far I do not think (saving your 

 critical presence) that there will be much need of much 

 modification or interpolation. 



I have made all my citations from a 4-voL edition of 

 Hume, published by Black and Tait in 1826, which has 

 long been in my possession. 



Do you think I ought to quote Green and Grose's 

 edition ? It will be a great bother, and I really don't 

 think that the understanding of Hume is improved by 

 going back to eighteenth -century spelling. 



I am at work upon the Life, which should not take 

 long. But I wish that I had polished that off at 

 Penmaenmawr as well. What with lecturing five days a 

 week, and toiling at two anatomical monographs, it IB 

 hard^ to find time. 



As soon as I have gone through all the eleven chapters 

 about the Philosophy I will send them to you and get 

 you to come and dine some day after you have looked 

 at them and go into it. Ever yours very faithfully, 



T. H. HUXLEY. 



SCIENCE SCHOOLS, S. KENSINGTON, 

 Oct. 29, 1878. 



MY DEAR MORLEY Your letter has given me great 

 pleasure. For though I have thoroughly enjoyed the 



