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much to do with poor Dr. to whom, I am sorry to 



say, your letter could do no good, as it arrived after my 

 colleagues and I had settled the business. 



But there were a number of strong candidates who 

 had not much chance. If it is open to me to serve him 

 hereafter, however, your letter will be of use to him, for 

 I know you do not recommend men lightly. 



After some eighteen months of misery the first thing 

 that did me any good was coming here. But I was 

 completely set up by six or seven weeks at Arolla in the 

 Valais. The hotel was 6400 feet up, and the wife and 

 daughters and I spent most of our time in scrambling 

 about the 2000 feet between that and the snow. Six 

 months ago I had made up my mind to be an invalid, 

 but at Arolla I walked as well as I did when you and I 

 made pilgrimages and earned the only honest sixpence 

 (I, at any rate) ever got for hard labour. Three months 

 in London brought me down again, so I came here to be 

 " mended." 



You know English literature so well that perhaps you 

 have read Wordsworth's " White Doe of Rylstone." I am 

 in that country, within walk of Bolton Abbey. 



Please remember me very kindly to the Signora and 

 thank her for copying the letter in such a charmingly 

 legible hand. I wish mine were like it. 



If I am alive we shall go to Arolla next summer. 

 Could we not meet there ? It is a fair half-way. Ever 

 yours, T. H. HUXLEY. 



END OF VOL. II 



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