er be more affectionate to it. I desire
you as the last suite I am likely to make to you, to believe
that I doe not fly my country for guilt, and how passionately
soever I am pursued, that I have not done anything to make
the University ashamed of me, or to repent the good opinion
they had once of me, and though I must have no mention in
your publique devotions, (which I have always exceedingly
valued,) I hope I shall always be remembered in your private
prayers, as

Good Mr. Vice-Chancellor,
Your affectionate servant,
CLARENDON.
CALAIS, this 7-17 Dec., 1667.

In 1871 I went abroad alone. I spent the whole time in England,
except for a brief visit to Scotland. My purpose in going
away was to get a vacation. I meant to do some studying in
the British Museum, especially to make a thorough study of
the conditions and economic principles affecting the strife
between capital and labor, which then threatened both this
country and England. I got a collection of the authorities
and the references. But I did not find that I got a great
deal of light from anything that had been written or said
so far. I made a few very agreeable acquaintances. I had
a letter to Thomas Hughes, and visited at his house. I found
George W. Smalley, who had been a pupil in my office, established
in a delightful house near London. He seemed to be on terms
of intimacy with the famous Englishmen who were the leaders
of both political parties, and with many eminent men of letters.
I spent a delightful evening with Mr. Hughes at a club which
I think was called the European Club, or something like that,
where the members smoked clay pipes and drank beer. There
seemed to be no other provision for the refreshment of the
body or soul. But the conversation was very pleasant. The
members sat together about a table, and the conversation was
quite general and very bright. The talk turned, during the
evening, on Scotsmen. The Englishmen present seemed to have
something left of the old prejudice about Scotland with which
Dr. Johnson was possessed. They imputed to the modern Scotsmen
the same thrifty habit and capacity for looking after himself
that prevailed a hundred years before, when Dr. Johnson and
John Wilkes, who quarrelled about everything else, became
reconciled when they united in abuse of their Northern neighbors.
Sir Frederick Pollock cited a marginal note from the report
of some old criminal case, to the following effect: