Ever yours very faithfully,
T.H. Huxley.
[Here also belong several letters of miscellaneous interest. One is to
Mrs. Lewis Campbell at the Maloja.]
Hodeslea, August 20, 1894.
My dear Mrs. Campbell,
What a pity I am not a telepath! I might have answered your inquiry in the letter I was writing to your husband yesterday.
The flower I found on the island in Sils Lake was a cross between Gentiana lutea and Gentiana punctata—nothing new, but interesting in many ways as a natural hybrid.
As to baptizing the island, I am not guilty of usurping ecclesiastical functions to that extent. I have a notion that the island has a name already, but I cannot recollect it. Walther would know.
My wife had a bad attack, and we were obliged to give up some visits we had projected. But she got well enough to go to Oxford with me for a couple of days, and really stood the racket better than I did.
At present she is fairly well, and I hope the enemy may give her a long respite. The Colliers come to us at the end of this month, and that will do her good.