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the worse. The apparatus is hv one of tlie best makers, but it 

 has been some years in use, and can't be expected to stand rough 

 work. 



You will be glad to hear that we had cheerier news of 

 Clifford on Saturday. He was distinctly better, and setting out 

 on his Mediterranean voyage. — Ever vours verv faithfullv. 



T.'h. Huxley. 



A birthday letter to his son concludes the \ear: 



4 Marlborough Place, X. \V., D,c. io. i^7f. 



Your mother reminds me that to-morrow is your eighteenth 

 birthday, and though I know that my " happy returns " will 

 reach you a few hours too late I cannot but send them. 



You are touching manhood now, my dear laddie, and I 

 trust that as a man your mother and I may always find reason 

 to regard you as we have done throughout your boyhood. 



The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happi- 

 ness as to earn peace and self-respect. I have not troubled you 

 much with paternal didactics — but that bit is " ower true " and 

 worth thinking over. 



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