68 GEOEGE JOHN EOMANES i877- 



To this Mr. Eomanes replied : 



18 Cornwall Terrace : Dec. 2, 1877. 



It was most kind of you to write me such a long 

 and glowing letter. In one way it is a good thing 

 that all the world are not so big-hearted as yourself 

 — it would make young men awfully conceited. Yet 

 I value your opinion more than the opinion of any- 

 body, because in other things I have always found 

 your judgment more deep and sound than anybody's. 

 However, I will go to Huxley next Saturday for an 

 antidote, as it is quite true what he said about 

 himself at Cambridge, that he is not given to making 

 panegyrics. 



On the whole, as I have said, I was surprised how 

 well it was taken. And still more so in Yorkshire 

 last week — where I was lecturing at Leeds and 

 Halifax on Medusee, and took occasion to wind up 

 about you and your degree. I was perfectly as- 

 tonished at the reception you got among such popular 

 audiences. What a change you have Hved to see ! 

 If ever human being had a right to cry ' Vici ' — but 

 you know it all better than I do. 



About the grafts, I thought it most natural that 

 you should not like the bother of having them done 

 at Down, when there are such a multitude of other 

 gardens belonging to do-nothing people. But as you 

 have mentioned it, I may suggest that in the case of 

 onions there is a difficulty in all the gardens I know 

 — viz., that they are more or less infested with onion 

 worms. If, therefore, you should know any part of 

 your garden where onions have not grown for some 



