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that I want screwing up, and I am off to Ilkley on 

 Saturday for a week or two. Ilkley Wells House will 

 be my address. I should like to know that you are 

 picking up again. Ever yours very faithfully, 



T. H. HUXLEY. 



And again on December 13 : 



I am very glad to have news of you which on the 

 whole is not unsatisfactory. Your conclusion as to the 

 doctors is one I don't mind telling you in confidence I 

 arrived at some time ago. . . . 



I am glad you liked my treatment of Mr. Lilly. . . . 

 I quite agree with you that the thing was worth doing 

 for the sake of the public. 



I have in hand another bottle of the same vintage 

 about Modern Realism and the abuse of the word Law, 

 suggested by a report I read the other day of one of 

 laddon's sermons. 1 



The nonsense these great divines talk when they 

 venture to meddle with science is really appalling. 



Don't be alarmed about the history of Victorian 

 scienca 2 I am happily limited to the length of a 

 review article or thereabouts, and it is (I am happy to 

 say it is nearly done) more of an essay on the history of 

 science, bringing out the broad features of the contrast 

 between past and present, than the history itself. It 

 seemed to me that this was the only way of dealing with 

 such a subject in a book intended for the general public. 



The article " Science and Morals " was not only a 

 satisfaction to himself, but a success with the readers 

 of the Fortnightly. To his wife he writes : 



December 2. Have you had the Fortnightly? How 

 does my painting of the Lilly look ? 



1 "Pseudo-Scientific Realism," Coll. Ess. iv. 59. 2 See p. 461. 



