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again in that Court suit, which I hoped was permanently laid 

 up in lavender ? Resolve me these things. 



We shall be here I expect at least another week ; and bring 

 up at Gloucester about the 3rd September. Hope to get back 

 to Hodeslea latter part of September. — Ever yours faithfully, 



T. H. Huxley. 



To Sir J. D. Hooker 



Aug. 20. 

 You will have seen that I have been made a P.C. If I had 

 been offered to be made a police constable I could not have been 

 more flabbergasted than I was when the proposition came to me 

 a few weeks ago. I will tell you the story of how it all came 

 about when we meet. The Archbishopric of Canterbury is the 

 only object of ambition that remains to me. Come and be Suf- 

 fragan; there is plenty of room at Lambeth and a capital 

 garden ! 



To his Youngest Daughter 



Con-y-Gedal Hotel, Barmouth, Aug. 22, 1892. 



Dearest Babs — If Lord Salisbury had known my address, 



M and I should have had our little joke out before leaving 



Saundersfoot,* as the letter was dated 16th. It must be a month 

 since Lord Cranbrook desired Donnelly to find out if I would 

 accept the P.C, and as I heard no more about it up to the time 

 of dissolution, I imagined there was a hitch somewhere. And 

 really, the more I think of it the queerer does it seem, that a 

 Tory and Church Government should have delighted to honour 

 the worst-famed heretic in the three kingdoms. 



I am sure Donnelly has been at the bottom of it, as he is 

 the only person to whom I ever spoke of the fitness of the P.C. 

 for men of science and letters. 



The queer thing is that his chief and Lord Salisbury listened 

 to the suggestion. 



Tell Jack he is simply snuffed out — younger sons of peers 

 go with the herd of Barts. and knights I believe. But a table 

 of precedence is not to be had for love or money — and my anx- 

 iety is wearing. 



This place is as perfectly delightful as Aberystwith was 

 t'other. . . . With best love to you all — Ever your 



Pater. 



* Where he had been staying with his daughter. 



