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ments or do much work during the rest of my Hfe, 

 which is not hkely to be a long one. It is just 

 such an attack as I expected when walking with 

 you over Magdalen Bridge.^ 



Yours ever, 



G. J. EoMANES. 



By September he was able to listen to, and dis- 

 cuss, Dr. Sanderson's Presidential Address, which was 

 delivered in Nottingham at the British Association 

 of 1893. 



It was one of the great disappointments of that 

 illness that he could not go to Nottingham. To be 

 at the Association when his dear friend and master 

 was president was a great wish of his, and early in 

 the summer a kind invitation from Lady Laura 

 Bidding, to stay with the Bishop of Southwell and 

 herself for it, had been accepted. 



Nottingham and a visit to Denton, to which 

 Mr. Eomanes had been looking forward, had to be 

 given up. 



These things were real trials. It was not the 

 giving up particular bits of pleasure, but the realisa- 

 tion that he was too much of an invalid to do any- 

 thing of the sort, which he found so hard to bear, and 

 which he did bear with ever-increasing patience. 



His letters sometimes show how hard he felt his 

 trial. 



To James Bomanes, Esq. 



Oxford : September 4. 



My dearest James, — I have had two reasons for 

 not writing to Dunskaith since my letter about the 

 birth of Edmund. 



^ About eighteen months before, when a very temporary attack of 

 aphasia had come on. 



