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You certainly seem to be having much the best 

 time of it as regards weather. Every week and every 

 day here is worse than the last — the month which 

 has just ended having been the most savage February 

 in the memory of living Londoners. You will have 

 seen that poor Cotter Morison has not survived it. 

 He died last Sunday, just too soon to see his son, who 

 had been telegraphed home from India. He had a 

 great desire to live long enough to have had this 

 meeting, and it seems hard that when he struggled 

 on so long and painfully at the end, that he should 

 just have missed it. 



For Mr. Morison Mr. Eomanes had a great regard, 

 and his death was a real sorrow. 



Journal. — Sir F. Bramwell lectured on the ' Faults 

 of the Decimal System,' calling it a lecture without 

 a point. He was killingly amusing. Dinner at Sir 

 H. Thompson's, met Mr. J. Froude, Hannen, and 

 others. 



We met the author of ' The New Antigone ' the 

 other night at the Lillys'. He reviewed ' Mental 

 Evolution in Man ' in a E.C. paper the other day ; 

 according to him it's the Gospel of Dirt ! Last 

 Sunday we went to hear Spurgeon ; of his personal 

 goodness there is no doubt. 



May 14. — Stayed in Christ Church with the 

 Pagets. G-. had a most interesting talk with Aubrey 

 Moore. [Mr. Eomanes had already, at the Aristote- 

 lian Society, met Mr. Aubrey Moore.] Lunched 

 on Sunday with the Max Miillers. He showed us a 



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