"I am, yours most truly, "F. W. Newman." "Bournemouth (undated). "My dear Friend, "Your letter of July 12th from Margate has reached me here, to which place I came because my wife five years ago gained such health here, and all the year and past autumn she has never felt sure of health at home. I cannot think she manages herself rightly, yet she believes, with no small reason, that I am not a safe traveller without her; yet of the two _I_ seem the stronger. She is better here, perhaps, because she is more in the outer air. I must add, I too have recovered from my fall, and am fairly well, though I do not pretend to be strong yet (as the French would say), _Que voulez vous?_ when I am past 88.... I am glad to learn about your children. I have good hope concerning the coming future, though the foes of progress call us faddists because we think _national morality_ paramount to vicious routine. May but the Good prevail! "... I now argue _for_ Fish-food as not to be forbidden or frowned on, but do not lessen my esteem of our Manchester V. E. M. Society, nor lessen my contribution to it, though they can only receive me as an outsider. "I turn a vegetarian argument against them on the Fish question, but I have no time now for it. "I am bringing out another volume on Paul of Tarsus, which, when complete, I hope to send you. "With warm salutes, I am yours, "Francis Wm. Newman. "My wife desires her kind thought to be named." "_1st Nov._, 1892. "My dear Madam, "I have not time nor strength to search out your last kind letter, which perhaps informed me when your two sons from India were expected and when they were to leave you.... "I do fairly well, if I potter on in my old solid routine. My 88th year makes pretension to _strength_; but when so many moans are heard about _neuralgia_, not to say influenza, I feel myself much favoured by the total absence of pain, except merely what is incidental to a thin body with some sharp bones. In rising from bed I am aware of small discomforts, which I shake off on standing upright, and similarly after sitting in one posture. I have not enough suffering to claim pity. I can wish the same to all my friends, especially to my wife. "To my judgment the world ... is in an entirely novel state, which forebodes a wholly new future, and requires new thoughts, new policy in our rulers, _with much higher_ MORALITY if grave overthrow is to be averted.