It is like northern breezes to read your account of all the happy doings you have had on your wedding trip, and it makes me happy to feel that you have made so wise a choice in the greatest event of your life. Long may you live together in the cultivation of domestic bliss, although of course only in the moments snatched from the cultivation of science!
February 2.
Charlotte and Mytsie arrived last night at ten o'clock—twelve hours late. They had the roughest voyage which the boat has ever experienced. Poor Char.[106] is literally more dead than alive. But the weather here is beautiful, and I hope she may soon get to rights again.
With affectionate regards to my mentor, and to yours, I remain, ever the same,
Philosopher.
To James Romanes, Esq.
Madeira: March 8.
Charlotte enjoys this place amazingly, she is always saying, 'Just a very Paradise for James.' I quite agree with her. You liked Nice very much, but Nice is far from being up to this either in regard to sun, flowers, rocks, or mountains. It has certainly done me a lot of good. My headaches are virtually gone, and I can work a little again, which makes all the difference between Heaven and its antipodes.
March 13.
I am glad you are pleased about the lectureship foundation. The principal feature of the scheme is the perpetual publication of the lectures in volumes of ten each through all time, or at least as long as Oxford lasts.