&T. 76. | TO SIR EDWARD FRY., 789 
William, their father, has been painted by Holl. He 
is a good subject. Saw your sister B. (and kind 
Lombe) ; she writes a charming letter to my wife ; 
seems to hold her own wonderfully. 
CamprivGe, November 22, 1886. 
Well, I have got safely through my seventy-sixth 
birthday, which gives a sort of assurance. I have 
always observed that if I live to November 18, I 
live the year round! 
You are working at Euphorbs, ete.; I at Malva- 
cee, in which I find a good deal to do for the species, 
and something for the betterment of genera. . . . 
TO SIR EDWARD FRY. 
CAMBRIDGE, November 13, 1886. 
My coop Frrenp, — Let me turn for a moment to 
our quarter-millennial celebration of the foundation of 
our university, though you in Europe may count our 
antiquity as very modern. It was an affair of three 
days, culminating on Monday last, and was altogether 
very pleasant. You will like to know that among the 
honorary degrees given, was one to Professor Allen, 
of the Episcopal Theological School here, in recogni- 
tion of the merits of his “ Continuity of Religious 
Thought,” which work, Iam glad to remember, you 
much liked. The Mother Cambridge sent to us the 
master of St. John’s, Dr. Taylor, and Professor 
Creighton, of Immanuel College, to which the found- 
ers and first professors of Harvard belonged. Mrs. 
Creighton came with him, and we found them pleasant 
people. I suppose Lowell’s oration, Holmes’s poem, 
and the doings in general will be in print before very 
long, and I shall not forget to send you a copy. 
