Item:
There is a new Fishery Commission that I also strongly objected to, but had to cave in so far as I agreed to attend some meetings in latter half of September.
[On this occasion Lord Granville had written back:—
11 Carlton House Terrace, July 28, 1883.
My dear Professor Huxley,
Clay, the great whist player, once made a mistake and said to his partner, "My brain is softening," the latter answered "Never mind, I will give you ten thousand pounds down for it, just as it is."
On that principle and backed up by Paget I shall write to Harcourt on
Monday.
Yours sincerely,
Granville.
The Commission of course cut short the stay at Milford, and on
September 12, he writes:—]