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6 hospitabl, as you know. We should be dining out every night almost, if we were not here for something else. We took our
first day away yesterday, when we went to Oxford to visit Professor Poulton, and enjoyed every hour of it. There were four
other guests besides us, among them Professor and Mrs. Meldola, then there were people in besides. Vernon enjoyed most the
men's dinner at Jesus College With all its old ceremonial and beautiful picture. I was allowed to go along with Professor
Poulton and Prof. Meldola and Vernon 7 to the laboratory for an hour when they were looking at hundreds of beautiful African
butterflies and seeing the changes mimicry wrought in them. We are to dine next with the Festing Joneses--he is the at present
much revived Samuel Butler's Boswwell --and his sister calls him Hoppy We met Mrs. Pennell the other day and liked her better
than almost anybody we had met, etc., etc., etc. But I shall leave other things for another letetr, or until we meet. May
that be soon With this week, half of our London stay will be over. Which doesn't seem believable, it has