Yours ever,
G. J. Romanes.
By September he was able to listen to, and discuss, Dr. Sanderson's Presidential Address, which was delivered in Nottingham at the British Association of 1893.
It was one of the great disappointments of that illness that he could not go to Nottingham. To be at the Association when his dear friend and master was president was a great wish of his, and early in the summer a kind invitation from Lady Laura Ridding, to stay with the Bishop of Southwell and herself for it, had been accepted.
Nottingham and a visit to Denton, to which Mr. Romanes had been looking forward, had to be given up.
These things were real trials. It was not the giving up particular bits of pleasure, but the realisation that he was too much of an invalid to do anything of the sort, which he found so hard to bear, and which he did bear with ever-increasing patience.
His letters sometimes show how hard he felt his trial.
To James Romanes, Esq.
Oxford: September 4.
My dearest James,—I have had two reasons for not writing to Dunskaith since my letter about the birth of Edmund.