WCP5468

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Hodeslea, Eastbourne¹

April 1. 1891

Dear Sir

I trust my thanks for your kind letter are not too late — but correspondence is apt to get very much into arrear with me.

We are certainly making [2] progress — Common sense is eating away the churches[?] as white ants destroy wooden houses — they look perfectly sound & then one[?] day come down[?] by the rain[?] [.]

The roads are rapidly [3] becoming impossible[.]

I am | Yours very kindly[?] | T.H.Huxley [signature]

So long as I stop[?] in the fresh air of my hermitage here I do very well — but London & all its worries[?] are unbearable any longer