364 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY CHAP. XV 



I enclose letter from Deutsch lunatic to go before 

 Council and be answered by Foreign Secretary. 



HlGHCROFT HOUSE, MlLFORD, 

 GODALMING, Aug. 29, 1884. 



DEARLY BELOVED I enclose the proofs, having 

 mustered up volition enough to go over them at once. I 

 think the alterations will be great improvements. I see 

 you interpret yourself about the movements of the 

 larynx. 



As to the histology, I shall have a shot at it, but if I 

 do not send you MS. in a week's time, go ahead. I am 

 perplexed about the illustrations, but I see nothing for it 

 but to have new ones in all the cases which you have 

 marked. Have you anybody in Cambridge who can 

 draw the things from preparations ? 



You are like Trochu with your "plan," and I am 

 anxious to learn it. But have you reflected, 1st, that I 

 am getting deafer and deafer, and that I cannot hear 

 what is said at the council table and in the Society's 

 rooms half the time people are speaking ? and 2nd, that 

 so long as I am President, so long must I be at the beck 

 and call of everything that turns up in relation to the 

 interests of science. So long as I am in the chair, I can- 

 not be a faineant or refuse to do anything and every- 

 thing incidental to the position. 



My notion is to get away for six months, so as to 

 break with the "world, the flesh, and the devil" of 

 London, for all which I have conceived a perfect loath- 

 ing. Six months is long enough for anybody to be 

 forgotten twice over by everybody but personal friends. 



I am contemplating a winter in Italy, but I shall 

 keep on my house for Harry's sake and as a pied a terre 

 in London, and in the summer come and look at you at 

 Burlington House, as the old soap-boiler used to visit the 

 factory. I shall feel like the man out of whom the 

 legion of devils departed when he looked at the gambades 



