i886 LETTER TO SIR M. FOSTER 



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You have taken the shine out of my exultation at Lubbock's 

 majority — though I confess I was disheartened to see so many 

 educated men going in for the disruption policy. If it were not 

 for Randolph I should turn Tory, but that fellow will some day 

 oust Salisbury as Dizzy ousted old Derby, and sell his party to 

 Parnell or anybody else who makes a good bid. 



We are flourishing on the whole. Sulphide of wife joins 

 with me in love. — Ever yours, T. H. H. 



On the 21st he writes : — 



The formation of Huxley sulphide will be brought to a 

 sudden termination to-morrow when we return to London. The 

 process has certainly done my wife a great deal of good and I 

 wish it could have gone on a week or two longer, but our old 

 arrangements are upset and we must start with the chicks for 

 Switzerland on the 27th, that is next Tuesday. 



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