386 MEMOIR OF AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN. 



1869. sions with yourself. It was not what they call the real apoplexy, 

 because it had no lasting effect on any organ ; but Mr. Weller, 

 senior, would have admitted it for a genuine appleplexy. I am 

 going on very well now, and if anything happens to the con- 

 trary, my wife will write. 



Give our kind regards to Lady Pollock and all the family. 



Yours sincerely, 



A. DE MORGAN. 



To Sir F. Pollock. 

 [Written in pencil.] 



91 Adelaide Road, June 19, 1869. 



MY DEAR SIR FREDERICK, I enterprise a letter of my own 

 writing. I am glad to hear you have got hold of H. C. B., 1 

 whom I allow to be Herr Conversations Rath, though I cannot 

 answer for the German correctness of the title. 



I suppose you will find a host of reminiscences even I find a 

 large lot. The only thing I have done for many weeks is to 

 write from the sheets a little notice of his works for a 

 theological Review ; so I have picked it all through, and made 

 extracts. They say autobiography is always readable. Three 

 thick volumes, intermixed with letters, is a severe test, but I 

 think many will get through it. Certainly, it will be a repertory 

 of facts tending to literary history, in which the smallest bit of 

 personal biography is sometimes clinching. 



As to myself, I progress. The medical men are agreed that 

 nothing is apoplexy except what leaves injury to some power 

 or organ. The congestion, which they make out to be common, is 

 voted no disorder at all. All which is very true, as to the great 

 superiority of an attack which leaves no consequences over one 

 which does leave them. But congestion is congestion, after all. 

 Our kind regards to Lady Pollock and all the family. 



Yours sincerely, 



A. DE MORGAN. 



To Sir F. Pollock, Bart. 



6 Merton Road, N.W., July 24, 1869. 



MY DEAR SIR FREDERICK, As we neither of us are strong on 

 the legs, and yet can use our fingers, I employ mine to beg you 

 1 Henry Crabb Robinson's Diary, &c. 



