30 JAMES CLEUK MAXWELL 



unwell, and took measures accordingly to bo well again i.e. 

 went to bed, and made up my mind to recover. Hut it Listed 

 more than a fortnight, during which time I was taken care of 

 beyond expectation (not that I did not cxject much before). 

 When I was perfectly useless and could not sit up without 

 fainting, Mr. Taylcr did everything for me in such a way that 

 I had no fear of giving trouble. So did Mivs. Taylor ; and the 

 two nephews did all they could. So they kept me in great 

 happiness all the time, and detained me till I was able to walk 

 about and got back .strength. I returned on the 4th July. 



44 The consequence of all this is that 1 correspond with Mr. 

 Tayler, and have entered into bonds with the nephews, of 

 all of whom more hereafter. Since I came here I have been 

 attending Hop., but, with his approval, did not l>egin full 

 swing. I am getting on, though, and the work is not grinding 

 on the prepared brain." 



During this period he wrote some papers for the 

 Cambridge and. Dublin MatheniattcidJournal which 

 will be referred to again later, lie was also a member 

 of a discussion society known as the "Apostles," and 

 some of the essays contributed by him are preserved 

 by Professor Campbell. Mr. Xiven, in his preface to 

 the collected edition of Maxwell's works, suggests 

 that the composition of these essays lai<l the founda- 

 tion of that literary finish which is one of the 

 characteristics of Maxwell's scientific writings. 



Among his friends at the time were Tait, Charles 

 Mackenzie of Cains, the missionary bishop of Central 

 Africa, Henry and Frank Mackenzie of Trinity, 

 Droop, third Wrangler in 1854 ; Gedge, Isaac Taylor, 

 Blakiston, F. \V. Farrar * II. M. Butier/f- Hort, V. 

 Lushington, Cecil Munro, G. W. II. Tayler, and W. X. 

 Lawson. Some of these who survived him have 



* Dean of Canterbury. f M;iU-r ul' Trinity. 



