£7. 73.] TO SIR EDWARD FRY. 755 
Republican presidential nomination. We even hope 
to give the electoral vote of Massachusetts, stanchest 
of Republican States, to the Democratic candidate. 
But I need not bore you with American polities. 
Let me say how sorry we were not to see Miss Fox 
at our home. It might have been, except for a little 
journey we made from Philadelphia, of which I must 
tell you more. 
I had a mere glimpse of Miss Fox at Montreal, 
and a little more of her cousin. She came late to 
Philadelphia, where Mrs. Gray (who was not at Mon- 
treal) and I had a most pleasant chat with her at a 
garden reception. The next day I went out to the 
suburban place where she was visiting, and came near 
to winning her for our expedition, at least as far as to 
Luray cave, and the Natural Bridge in the Valley of 
Virginia. But the engagements she had made could 
not be reconciled. Her hostess was to take her to 
this neighborhood, but too early for us to receive her 
here. All good people in this country think so much 
of Caroline Fox that they wished to know her sister. 
I have not seen the book by Mr. Arthur on differ- 
ence between physical and moral laws, and am not 
sure that I ever heard of it or of the author. Who is 
the publisher? I might find it at the university library. 
No, I never had the fortune to see, much less to know 
Maurice. Of course I have always known a good deal 
about him and of the remarkable influence he ex- 
erted, both in person and in his writings, “in which 
were some things hard to understand,” such as his 
liking for the Athanasian creed, but nothing that was 
not most excellent in spirit. 
Of course I wellremember Miss Wedgewood; and 
we had occasional correspondence up to the time when 
