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Went to see Prof. Masson at the Athenaeum Club and found that I am admitted as a guest through [Sir Frederick] Pollock and Hughes.
It is a great satisfaction and honor . . . . As we went through the hall the Archbishop of Canterbury was coming down stairs, Sir Henry Maine, the author was coming from the smoking room, and the three men in the smoking room were Galton, Palgrave and the editor of the Quarterly Review.
No building in the world has so many eminent men within its walls from 4 to 6 daily.
Then he records meeting at the
Cosmopolitan Club,
Anthony Trollope, Lord Houghton, whom he knew before, ‘brisk, small, and chatty’; and of having ‘a talk with
Galton, author of “Hereditary Genius.”
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Heard a lecture from Max Muller at the Chapter House of Westminster Abbey.
Afterwards I went up to speak to him and found him as pleasant as possible.
He remembered at once my Sympathy of Religions which I had sent him and begged me to come to Oxford and see him. He looks quite English in style, but has a sweet sunny manner and slight German accent, about as much of both as Agassiz.
Colonel Higginson had been appointed a delegate to a Prison Reform Convention at
Stockholm, and of a preparatory English meeting in May he said:—
The one interesting person was Cardinal Manning—such a prepossessing and distinguished man,
