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flooded the Chiavenna-Colico Railway. We hear that the latter 

 is not yet repaired. 



I was going to write to you at the Vittoria, but thought you 

 could have hardly got there yet. We took rooms there a week 

 ago, and then had to countermand them. If there are any letters 

 kicking about for us, will you ask them to send them on ? 



By way of an additional complication my poor wife gave 

 herself an unlucky strain this morning, and even if the railway 

 is mended I do not think she will be fit to travel for two or 

 three days. We are very disappointed. What is to be done? 



I am wonderfully better. So long as I am taking active 

 exercise and the weather is dry, I am quite comfortable, and 

 only discover that I have a heart when I am kept quiet by bad 

 weather or get my liver out of order. Here I can walk nine 

 or ten miles up hill and down dale without difficulty or fatigue. 

 What I may be able to do elsewhere is doubtful. — Ever yours, 



T. H. Huxley. 



It would do you and Mrs. Foster a great deal of good to 

 come up here. Not out of your way at all ! Oh dear no ! 



Zurich, Oct. 4, 1888. 



My dear Foster — I should have written to you at Stresa, 

 but I had mislaid your postcard, and it did not turn up till too 

 late. 



We made up our minds after all that we would as soon not 

 go down to the Lakes — where the ground would be drying up 

 after the inundations — so we went the other way over the Julier 

 to Tiefenkasten, and from T. to Ragatz, where we stayed a 

 week. Ragatz was hot and steamy at first — cold and steamy 

 afterwards — but earlier in the season, I should think, it would 

 be pleasant. 



Last Monday we migrated here, and have had the vilest 

 weather until to-day. All yesterday it rained cats and dogs. 



To-day we are off to Neuhausen (Schweitzerhof) to have a 

 look at the Rhine falls. If it is pleasant we may stop there a 

 few days. Then we go to Stuttgart, on our way to Nuremberg, 

 which neither of us have seen. We shall be at the " Bavarian 

 Hotel," and a letter will catch us there, if you have anything to 

 say, I daresay up to the middle of the month. After that Frank- 

 fort, and then home. 



We do not find long railway journeys very good for either 

 of us, and I am trying to keep within six hours at a stretch. 



