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I will now see that you receive an official invita- 

 tion from trie Y.C. to deliver your lecture next May 

 Term. And I am glad to think that there will be no 

 possibility of the lecturer following the Premier in 

 almost totally ignoring the existence of science, 

 Bacon and Newton being the only names that he 

 mentioned in this connection. Please remember (in 

 case I should forget to to tell you later on) that when 

 your lecture comes off you had better follow the 

 precedent set by Mr. G-., and wear your red D.C.L. 

 gown. 



With united kind regards to Mrs. Huxley and 

 yourself, 



I remain, yours very sincerely, 



G. J. Eomanes. 



Then came the departure for Madeira, which was 

 a real trial, for never before had Christmas been spent 

 away from home. But the change seemed to do him 

 much good. Save for occasional days of headache he 

 was very bright and well, and worked at his book and 

 wrote several articles for the ' Contemporary Beview ' 

 on Professor Weismann's theory. But poetry he 

 could not manage. 



To Mrs. Henry Pollock. 



Madeira : December 18, 1892. 



My dear Mentor, — I fear you must have been 

 thinking that I am either very ill or very heartless not 

 to have written ere this. Yet neither is the case. 

 Ill I assuredly am, but not so much as to have pre- 

 vented me from sending you a letter for the marriage 



