I shall be most glad henceforth, as ever, to help your great undertaking
in any way I can. The more I contemplate its issues the more important
does it seem to me to be, and I assure you that I look upon its success
as the business of all of us. So that if it were not a pleasure I should
feel it a duty to "push behind" as hard as I can.

Have you seen this quarter's "Westminster?" The opening article on
"Neo-Christianity" is one of the most remarkable essays in its way I
have ever read. I suppose it must be Newman's. The "Review" is terribly
unequal, some of the other articles being absolutely ungrammatically
written. What a pity it is it cannot be thoroughly organised.

My wife is a little better, but she is terribly shattered. By the time
you come back we shall, I hope, have reverted from our present hospital
condition to our normal arrangements, but in any case we shall be glad
to see you.

Ever yours faithfully,

T.H. Huxley.

[The following is, I think, the first reference to his fastidiousness in
the literary expression and artistic completeness of his work. As he
said in an after-dinner speech at a meeting in aid of the Literary Fund,
"Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing."
Anything that was to be published he subjected to repeated revision. And
thus, apologising to Hooker for his absence, he writes (August 2,
1860):--]

I was sorry to have to send an excuse by Tyndall the other day, but I