274 GEOEGE JOHN EOMANES 1890 



John has gone and I am well. The connection 

 sounds like one of Gerald's letters. 



Yours ever the same. 



I have been signing my name in Latin so much 

 of late that I stumble over it. Besides, I am not 

 really the same, being a M.A. M. A. 



St. Aldate's : July 1, 1890. 



I have just come back from dinner. My next 

 neighbour to-night was Liddon, and we had a long 

 talk on the ethics of suicide regarded from the pre- 

 Christian or purely ' secular ' point of view. 



I also improved the occasion in the interests of 

 P. N. W. It was clearly a new light to Liddon that 

 Philip should be so highly thought of by a man of 

 science, and he appeared to have determined there 

 and then to exert himself in getting a more suitable 

 berth for ' a man now so greatly needed in the Church.' 



Oxford. 



Two bits of news. Dunstan * has a son and 

 Liddon is seriously ill. Dr. John Ogle came yester- 

 day afternoon from town to see him, and dined with 

 us. There is great pain in the neck. 



I lunched with the Sandersons, or rather with Mrs. 

 Sanderson, as the Professor did not leave his room, 

 but he is getting on very well. 



Last night after dinner I looked in at the Poul- 

 tons, and found them entertaining two Natural 

 Science young ladies from Somerville Hall. A very 



1 Professor W. Dunstan, F.E.S. 



