From William Marshall to Horace Darwin 13 January 1874

Dear bounder,

I am so glad to hear from FMB that you have been prospering in your first 4 days of of tripos. It is interval must. be nasty, but you can thank heaven it is half over. I came back yesterday from Dresden via Berlin—we had a very good time of it on the whole a weeks skating, splendid pictures splendid music & one perfect little Greek statue. It was most bitterly cold for a bit, England feels like a hothouse after it. I used to look in at the photo shops in Dresden & Berlin and I dont think there was any Englishman whose face I saw so often there as your father. He is going to a spiritualistic business with my brother F. I hear, we should owe him a great deal if he would get to the bottom of it. I am just beginning to try and read a Physology book i German wh. is pain. & grief at present. It is a bad language but it has comic points: words like Seschmacksosgan, Grogk, Punsch qte amuse me & relieve the tedium. I shall be up at Camb. on 26^th. I trust you will be about more or less then or next term.

ever y^r aff—K.