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Lawrence : ‘ Mr. F[]owlerJ 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 i 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. Foxs 
fossils ® 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 J apan. W e all had 
pancakes ! according to custom. I’ve a whole 
holiday to-morrow.’ 
^ Mr. Fox discovered the Poikilophuron and other interesting 
fossil Dinosaurs. 
