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the time the sea has been quiet. I have not been seasick a 

 moment nor missed a single meal. Kitty has had the best 

 voyage she has yet had on the Atlantic, having been up 

 every day, though she has been but little at table. I have 

 read some indeed, considerably and somewhat warmed 

 myself up for my work, but at the expense of a reputation 

 of great unsociability, which has made it unpleasant for me. 

 The only men of note on board are two sons of Cambridge, 

 Harvard College Prof. Torrey, of the chair of History, 

 and Prof. Bowen, of Metaphysics, Ethics, and Political 

 Economy. I have somewhat made their acquaintance, and 

 find it agreeable. They run over for their vacation. We 

 learned by the pilot this morning that the war is precipi- 

 tated in Germany and reform scuttled in England. You, 

 of course, will have the particulars, and perhaps as soon as 

 we do. We expect to reach Liverpool to-night, perhaps 

 by twelve or one o'clock, and leave for London to-morrow 

 morning Friday by the 9.30 train. 



LONDON, Juty 7, 1866. 



DEAR SISTER : . . . I inclose a note received last night 

 from Spencer. I shall telegraph him to-day, to learn the 

 place and hour of his arrival, and meet him and invite him 

 here,* as there is plenty of room. I called on Williams 

 [of the firm of Williams & Norgate, publishers of Mr. 

 Spencer's books] this morning. 



LONDON, Friday, July ij, 1866. 



MY DEAR SISTER : . . . I think I sent you the note in 

 which Spencer announced his coming to town. I tele- 

 graphed him to meet him, but he replied that he did not 

 know at what hour he should arrive. Next day he sent 



* To the boarding house kept by a Mrs. Langford, from which Youmans 

 was writing. Mr. Spencer had left 88 Kensington Gardens Square, and 

 had not yet gone to 37 Queens Gardens, Bayswater, where he lived so 

 many years. 



