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whooping cough, mother with influenza, a servant ditto. 

 I don't know whether you have such things in Tennessee. 



Let me see what has happened to me that will interest 

 you since I last wrote. Did I tell you that I have finally 

 made up my mind to stop in London the Government 

 having made it worth my while to continue in Jermyn 

 Street 1 They give me 600 a year now, with a gradual 

 rise up to 800, which I reckon as just enough to live on 

 if one keeps very quiet. However, it is the greatest 

 possible blessing to be paid at last, and to be free from 

 all the abominable anxieties which attend a fluctuating 

 income. I can tell you I have had a sufficiently hard 

 fight of it. 



When Nettie and I were young foola we agreed we 

 would marry whenever we had 200 a Jear. Well, we 

 have had more than twice that to begin upon, and how it 

 is we have kept out of the Bench is a mystery to me. 

 But we have, and I am inclined to think that the Missus 

 has got a private hoard (out of the puddings) for Noel. 



I shall leave Nettie to finish this rambling letter. In 

 the meanwhile, my best love to you and yours, and mind 

 you are a better correspondent than your affectionate 

 brother, TOM. 



To PROFESSOR LEUCKART 



THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL OF MINES, 



JERMYN STREET, LONDON, 



January, 30, 1859. 



MY DEAR SIR Our mutual friend, Dr. Harley, informs 

 me that you have expressed a wish to become possessed 

 of a separate copy of my lectures, published in the 

 Medical Times. I greatly regret that I have not one to 

 send you. The publisher only gave me half a dozen 

 separate copies of the numbers of the journal in which 

 the Lectures appeared. Of these I sent one to Johannes 



