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Down, where he himself managed to run down for 

 a week-end. "It appears to me," he writes to his 

 wife, "that you are subjecting poor Darwin to a 

 savage Tennysonian persecution. I shall see him 

 looking like a martyr and have to talk double science 

 next Sunday." 



In April another good friend, Dr. Bence Jones, 

 lent the invalid his house at Folkestone for three 

 months. Unable even to walk when she went there, 

 her recovery was a slow business. Huxley ran down 

 every week ; his brother George and his wife also 

 were frequent visitors. Meanwhile he resolved to 

 move into a new house, in order that she might 

 not return to a place so full of sorrowful memories. 

 On May 30 he effected the move to a larger 

 house not half a mile away from Waverley Place 

 26 Abbey Place (now 23 Abercorn Place). Here 

 also Mrs. Heathorn lived for the next year, my 

 grandfather, over seventy as he was, being com- 

 pelled to go out again to Australia to look 

 after a business venture of his which had come 

 to grief. 



Meantime the old house was still on his hands for 

 another year. Trying to find a tenant, he writes on 

 May 21, 1861 : 



I met J. Tyndall at Ramsay's last night, and I think 

 he is greatly inclined to have the house. I gave him 

 your message and found that a sneaking kindness for the 

 old house actuated him a good deal in wishing to take it 

 It is not a bad fellow, and we won't do him much on the 

 fixtures. 



