CHAPTEE XVI 



1884-85 



TOWARDS the end of September he went to the West 

 country to try to improve his health before the 

 session began again in London. Thus he writes, on 

 Sept. 26, to Mr. W. F. Collier, who had invited him 

 to Horrabridge, and on the 27th to Sir M. Foster : 



FOWEY, Sept. 26, 1884. 



Many thanks for the kind offer in your letter, which 

 has followed me here. But I have not been on the 

 track you might naturally have supposed I had followed. 

 I have been trying to combine hygiene with bvisiness, and 

 betook myself, in the first place, to Dartmouth, after- 

 wards to Totnes, and then came on here. From this 

 base of operations I could easily reach all my places of 

 meeting. To-morrow I have to go to Bodmin, but I 

 shall return here, and if the weather is fine (raining cats 

 and dogs at present), I may remain a day or two to take 

 in stock of fresh air before commencing the London 

 campaign. 



I am very glad to hear that your health has improved 

 so much. You must feel quite proud to be such an 

 interesting " case." If I set a good example myself I 

 would venture to warn you against spending five shillings' 

 worth of strength on the ground of improvement to the 

 extent of half-a-crown. 



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