354 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY CHAP. XIV 



I hear great accounts of the children (Ria and Buzzer) 

 and mean to cut out T'other Governor when you bring 

 them up. 



As we did not see Fred the other day, the family is in- 

 clined to think that the salmon disagreed with him ! 

 Ever your loving father, T. H. HUXLEY. 



4 MARLBOROUGH PLACE, May 10, 1883. 



MY DEAR MRS. TYNDALL If you will give me a bit of 

 mutton at one o'clock I shall be very much your debtor, 

 but as I have business to attend to afterwards at the Home 

 Office I must stipulate that my intellect be not imperilled 

 by those seductive evil genii who are apt to make their 

 appearance at your lunch table. 1 



M. is getting better, but I cannot let her be out at 

 night yet. She thinks she is to be allowed to go to the 

 International Exhibition business on Saturday ; but if 

 the temperature does not rise very considerably I shall 

 have two words to say to that.- Ever yours very sincerely, 



T. H. HUXLEY. 



I shall be alone. Do you think that I am " subdued 

 to that I work in," and like an oyster, carry my brood 

 about beneath my mantle ? 



1 This is accompanied by a sketch of a champagne bottle in the 

 character of a demon. 



