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38 QUEEN'S GARDENS, BAYSWATER, LONDON, W., September 2*] \ 1878. 



I wish I could make you more fully realize the fact than 

 you generally do that care for health and the relaxation 

 needed to put yourself in better state are really demanded 

 by regard for your work, and that you will in the long run 

 be able to do much more in discharging your obligations 

 if you do not persist in working when ill than if you do 

 persist. In fact, it seems to me that now you are running 

 considerable risk of failing altogether to do what you have 

 undertaken to do, as well as bringing upon yourself other 

 evils, and that regard for the interests of the Appletons, 

 as well as your own interests, should make you decide upon 

 taking a good holiday. Pray come over here as soon as 

 you can, and after spending a month with me here, which 

 would give you the opportunity of looking after various 

 matters, you might then accompany me for a couple of 

 months to the shores of the Mediterranean. 



If you could make up your mind to come with me and 

 do a little idling in pleasant places, I am convinced that 

 you would find it in the long run a great economy of time. 

 As to not seeing how such things are possible, I hold it to 

 be an instance of the absurd fanaticisms of men like your- 

 self who think that the one thing impossible is to let busi- 

 ness go by default, and that the only thing possible is to 

 sacrifice health and life to it. 



38 QUEEN'S GARDENS, BAYSWATER, LONDON, W., October jo, 1878. 



MY DEAR YOUMANS: I am looking forward with some 

 anxiety to the receipt of a letter from you, which I suppose 

 cannot now be much longer delayed. 



Pray yield to my pressure, and to the pressure which I 

 doubt not others also put upon you. You have always on 

 past occasions been glad that you came over, and if you 

 act upon the induction, which you may reasonably do, you 

 may conclude that you will afterward be glad if you come 



