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Lawrence : ' Mr. F[owler] and I return to Lon- 

 don to-morrow. Mrs. Tennyson sends her best 

 love to you. . . . My host and hostess were 

 charmed with their reception at Faringford ; we 

 were there from 1 to 3 p.m. The poet is very 

 well ; we had fair weather for our drive, and I 

 had half an hour to look over the Rev. Mr. Fox's 

 fossils 3 at Brixton en route! 



Writing to his sister Eliza on February 14, 

 1866, he says : ' I have just returned from 

 The Club. ... I sat next the Premier and 

 opposite the Lord Chancellor. The Duke of 

 Argyll was in the chair, supported by the Due 

 d'Aumale and the Dean of Westminster ; then 

 Lord Stanley, Earl Stanhope, Lord Kings- 

 down, Sir H. Holland, Froude, Dean Milman, 

 Mr. Stirling, Sir Edward Head, Spencer Wal- 

 pole, and the Editor of the " Edinburgh Review" 

 (Reeve) completed the party. . . . There are two 

 vacancies, and Sir Hugh Cairns and a Mr. 

 Twiselton — a wonderful Hebrew scholar — are 

 proposed. Wonderful French bons mots were 

 passed across our end of the table between the 

 Due d'Aumale and Lord Stanhope ; Lord Russell 

 and I talked about our gardens, primroses, male 

 aucubas, and new things from Japan. We all had 

 pancakes ! according to custom. I've a whole 

 holiday to-morrow.' 



3 Mr. Fox discovered the Poikilopleuron and other interesting 

 fossil Dinosaurs. 



