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Alas—I have just had another inoculation and by tea-time to-morrow I shall be sailing on tropic seas—I am trying a new treatment which gives me a high temperature for 48 hours each time it is applied. I wonder if you could and would come next Monday? I want very much to see you. You know M. has been made editor of The Athenæum; he was wondering whether you'd write for it. I wish you would…. There's a deal to talk over; I wish I were more physically stable—it's dreadful misery.