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Nov. 28.87

31, Kensington Square, W.

Dearest Mother,

I hope my feverishness is nearly gone now, […]

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the 29th of Feb […]

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isn't he? & so is Uncle Frank […]

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but she is an awfully unattractive woman & Caroline looks soft compared to her. […]

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Nature is a v. nice review & I like the Spec only it makes such a funny remark that after 30 Father says he cared for nothing artistic – He meant in old age –

I have felt it very delightful reading the letters – It makes so many old things come back & brings back the very

[Life and letters.]

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sound of his voice. I think what it must be to you.

About the Sir H. H. letter I shd think certainly the daughters won't get as far – and its not in the index - & I guess Sir H. H. will never see it either. I felt so much Uncle Ras wd have so disliked it being published.

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Upon the whole, I think Frank has been very careful. I see that tiresome Huxley has got him a wrangle or will get with me with Wilberforce. I do feel that Chapter a blot & if there is, as A.V.D. [Albert V. Dicey] says there shd be, a cheap edit of the first vol practically it may be left out in that

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He said he thought Huxley besides the egotism & bad taste didn't tell what one wanted to know – He (AVD) is now at Dublin but he doesn't expect to much in the papers as bigger wigs will take all available space. […]