The life and letters of George John Romanes . s lease of a charming old house,and let this one for a corresponding period. It is avery old house in Oxford, having been built byCardinal Wolsey. It is immediately opposite TomTower of Christ Church, and full of old oak—walls,floors, and ceilings of the principal rooms beingnothing else. I do wish you could come up before we beginoperations, to give us the benefit of your advice howso splendid an opportunity in the way of decorationshould be utilised. We have to get out of this house,with all our furniture, on or before May 20. Thechildren and ser
The life and letters of George John Romanes . s lease of a charming old house,and let this one for a corresponding period. It is avery old house in Oxford, having been built byCardinal Wolsey. It is immediately opposite TomTower of Christ Church, and full of old oak—walls,floors, and ceilings of the principal rooms beingnothing else. I do wish you could come up before we beginoperations, to give us the benefit of your advice howso splendid an opportunity in the way of decorationshould be utilised. We have to get out of this house,with all our furniture, on or before May 20. Thechildren and servants will then go to Geanies, while mywife and I will go to Oxford to begin the decorations. I am preparing my lectures on Darwinism for thepress, so that they may be ready for publication onthe last day of my course at Edinburgh in suppose I have your permission to reproduce pictures of electric organs ? Also, could yousend me for a day or two Haddons book on Em-bryology ? I have just heard that Charles Lister (whom I. 1890 OXFOED 271 think you met at Geanies) has died of fever inBrazil, where he was zoologising. Yours ever sincerely, Geo. J. Eomanes. To Mrs. Romanes. April 1889. Marian Pollock wants to make me dance at aball, but I say it is a case of bringing a horse to thewater (or an ass if you like). A philosopher cannotexpect to be pushed through his paces by the kind-ness of strangers as he has been by that of his my love to my other sisterl and my only wife. April 12, 1889. Another letter from some one named Eose who* as been made appy by you, hand would havebeen to church but for her mistress, hand so wouldyou please write, and then Eose might meet you andpour out her sorrows. A Hungarian youth called to-day wanting me totell him which bankers would allow him to inspecttheir bank books in order that he might study theirmethods for his political economy! I told him hehad better go and try. Yesterday I took Mytsie2 to the theatre, and
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