Alexander Henry Haliday

“ Nothing whatever appears yet to have been done to arrange matters. The Council seems to have gone to sleep leaving it to time to obliterate all unpleasantness. I believe that only 5 of the Society have actually seceded — but there are many who are dissatisfied and may yet secede — an unwise policy as I tell them for unless they are prepared to form a new Society they had better remain in the old one. ”

“ I fear I have written a wondrous long story about myself so that you will be well-nigh disgusted with the egotism of the writer but I can assure you I feel most lamentably the inconveniences of having greatness thrust upon me and I am very far from conceiving that I have done anything towards achieving greatness. ”

“ Bigot kept me on another stretch — I did not go out of my way for a single sight non Entomol altho’ I had not been in Paris for 16 years past. My stay was [frustrated] to nearly a week by the illness of one of my travelling companions. At Amiens I spent a day (a lovely Spring day) with Dr. Dours two hours of it in and on the fine Cathedral. The journey from Paris to Turin was but 34 hours but fatiquing; in the descent from Mo Cenis our carriage drag was red hot and strong smell of combustion and at this present rate of travelling accidents have been frequent. ”