618 TRAVEL IN EUROPE AND AMERICA. (1871, 
Only yesterday we learned of Gladstone’s doings 
by a newspaper slip sent us by a friend who knew of 
you through us on the Nile, Mrs. Howland. But I 
had a sort of premonition of it and was on the look- 
out. ... 
I do not know where the Deanery is, — not in so 
attractive a situation as Whatley Rectory, one may 
safely say. But I suppose you are not expected to 
reside there in summer, that you will be fairly able to 
have some country quarters to your liking. And there 
is Switzerland always within reach. Happy mortals, 
who can reach the Alps within forty-eight hours, and 
with only a narrow, though proverbially nasty, bit of 
water to cross! But what we hope to gain from this 
upturning is to see you over here. When Mr. Horner 
returns (we have heard nothing since they vanished in 
the West) he will tell you it is no formidable matter 
even to cross the continent. At least you can come 
and see us, make us a long visit, and be as quiet 
here as in a Swiss wayside inn, and sally forth upon 
an excursion when you like. 
Please thank Mrs. Church from me for thinking of 
us, and writing the very next day after this anxious 
matter was concluded. It is wonderful she could find 
time, with so much to do and to think of. And such 
a full account of the Swiss journey, too 
I owe you letters, too, — one at least lies reproach- 
ingly in a drawer of my table, where it was thrust a 
long while ago along with many others which could be 
postponed ; but once postponed it is not easy to over- 
take them. 
Say to Mrs. C. it is not a part of our house which 
was moved ; that would not have been difficult, for it 
is of wood (though the herbarium, ete., adjacent is of 
