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I had it at once for every other purpose. If I got hold of cow, 1869. 

 it was confusion, conglomeration anything but congestion. If I 

 got hold of gestion, it was digestion, suggestion, &c. Several times, 

 and days after I had recovered my senses, I used to amuse myself 

 by trying, and was at last obliged to ask what had been the matter 

 with me. 



2. When I woke to recollection of the universe, and for days 

 afterwards, I was possessed with the idea that before the 

 seizure I had received a letter from Ireland, written on the sup- 

 position that I was a clergyman, and offering me a great lot of 

 Irish preferment. If there be one political subject on which I 

 had never thought or cared, it is the Irish Church and its man- 

 agement. 



My idea was that some poor patron, in a hurry to induct 

 some one into the benefices, by way of securing some vested 

 interest before the final disendowment, had taken it into his 

 head to select me as the holder of the profits for the rest of 

 their term. I was very anxious to set him right, not knowing 

 how much consequence a day might be of. But as I got nearer 

 to the letter- writing state, the vision became fainter, and when 

 I at last looked, more to see what could have suggested it than 

 with any idea of finding, I could not get a trace of any such 

 letters. Besides these, I had not any consequences whatever of 

 the loss of consciousness. 



I think this must go as it is. I hope your family are well, 

 and yourself. Do you know, or can you find, anything about H. 

 Parr Hamilton, the Dean of Salisbury ? Kind regards to Mrs. 

 Heald. 



Yours sincerely, 



A. DE MORGAN. 



To Sir J. Herschel. 



6 Merton Road, October 20, 1869. 



MY DEAR SIR JOHN, Surely I sent you my card, which you 

 will find within the envelope. 1 This envelope arrived on Monday 

 with the pie of TTS which you see. But the Leverrier has not 

 come yet: no doubt it is hunting me all over N.W., with a 



1 A card on which he had printed a small map of Merton Road and 

 the immediate neighbourhood as a guide to friends. Unless the ' pie 

 of TTS ' means the number of circles stamped by the Post Office on the 

 envelope, which appears to [have travelled half over London before 

 reaching him, I cannot interpret it. S. E. DE M. 



