Charlotte enjoys this place amazingly, she is always saying, 'Just a very Paradise for James.' I quite agree with her. You liked Nice very much, but Nice is far from being up to this either in regard to sun, flowers, rocks, or mountains. It has certainly done me a lot of good. My headaches are virtually gone, and I can work a little again, which makes all the difference between Heaven and its antipodes. March 13. I am glad you are pleased about the lectureship foundation. The principal feature of the scheme is the perpetual publication of the lectures in volumes of ten each through all time, or at least as long as Oxford lasts. I am better even since I last wrote to you. Even my powers of work have, to a considerable extent, returned. So I am answering H. Spencer's articles on 'Weismannism.' With warmest love, yours ever the same, GEORGE. _To Mrs. G. J. Romanes._ Madeira. I got your dear note soon after we went down to the pier to see you start. Through the club telescope I thought I saw you and Fritz. When you got far out I came home. The Taylors joined our table, which is very agreeable. The Canon told me a good joke which came off to-day. Sir 'Gorgias' told the Canon he had bought a second-hand book which he thought Dr. Taylor might find interesting. The Canon asked what the book was, and the Knight replied it was by a man called Locke, and was all about the Human Understanding. February 2. Char., Mytsie, and maid arrived; they had a perfectly frightful passage. All passengers shut down for two days, crockery broken, &c. S---- presented a large wedding cake for the Sunday tea of the Inner Brotherhood. February 11. This is the joyful day.[107] Your telegram was handed to me at lunch, so all the Inner Brotherhood had the benefit. The Canon said you ought to have used the comparative degree, so as to leave me an opportunity of returning the superlative. What a journey you had, poor dears! It does not seem so certain after all that we should be safe for comfort on a long voyage. Mytsie and Char. had a worse passage than you, the wind was dead against them all the way. It is indeed shocking about the Dean.[108] I heard it before you did. I will write to him by this mail. So glad you had such a good concert. If you only knew how I was longing to enjoy it with you.... An adagio movement has now followed the allegro, and I am looking forward to a presto home as a finale. My news is not much. My cold was very bad from Saturday to Monday, but I slept most of the time straight on. If it were not for my eyes I should be almost as well as ever I was.