Yours very faithfully,
T.H. Huxley.
Fowey Hotel, Fowey, Cornwall, September 27, 1884.
My dear Foster,
I return your proof, with a few trifling suggestions here and there…
I fancy we may regard the award as practically settled, and a very good award it will be.
The address is beginning to loom in the distance. I have half a mind to devote some part of it to a sketch of the recent novelties in histology touching the nucleus question and molecular physiology.
My wife sent me your letter. By all means let us have a confabulation as soon as I get back and settle what is to be done with the "aged P."
I am not sure that I shall be at home before the end of the week. My lectures do not begin till next week, and the faithful Howes can start the practical work without me, so that if I find myself picking up any good in these parts, I shall probably linger here or hereabouts. But a good deal will depend on the weather—inside as well as outside. I am convinced that the prophet Jeremiah (whose works I have been studying) must have been a flatulent dyspeptic—there is so much agreement between his views and mine.
Ever yours,