34-O Edward Livingston Youmans. 



his smoking-cap, and so I snoozed by the fire. I shall have 

 to abate my ambition to do things, and take it easier in this 

 wretched November till I can get out of it. ... Charles 

 Peirce isn't read much on this side. Clifford, however, 

 says he is the greatest living logician, and the second man 

 since Aristotle who has added to the subject something 

 material, the other man being George Boole, author of The 

 Laws of Thought. Clifford is in miserable health. 



November 5, 1877. 



MY DEAR SISTER: Yesterday morning Spencer asked 

 me if I would go over to see the Leweses in the afternoon, 

 as they were recently back from the country. So I went. 

 Coming back, he said he didn't go to Leweses any more on 

 Sunday unless to take a friend, but he lunched there not 

 infrequently, and they had it all to themselves without in- 

 terruption. There was not only great cordiality, but pro- 

 found respect and admiration for Spencer on the part of 

 the Leweses. I enjoyed it. I was more at my ease than 

 before, and could study them. They both look immensely 

 older, but are both intellectually strong. She is mortal 

 homely, but very attractive from the brightness of her face 

 when talking. She speaks, however, too deliberately, with 

 too studied an air, and almost a dash of self-consciousness. 

 The conversation was light, and did not run into discussion. 

 Mrs. Lewes asked after you and your work in regard to 

 children, expressing a hearty commendation of it, and say- 

 ing she had seen your Botany- and it interested her all of 

 which, bear in mind, she certainly never got from me. A 

 sister of Lady Amberley came in with her husband, a Mr. 

 Howard, who will be an earl in a short time, and presently 

 we left. Spencer went to the club and I went to Huxley's 

 last evening. 



/ 

 Soon after his return to America he paid a visit to 



a newly married niece at her home in Connecticut, 



