LEWES." * * * * * Then after a long break, and after a new phase of my life had commenced, Lewes writes on the 14th of January, 1869, from "21, North Bank":-- * * * * * "DEAR T.T.,--We did not meet in Germany because our plans were altogether changed.

We passed all the time in the Black Forest, and came home through the Oberland.

I did write to Salzburg however, and perhaps the letter is still there; but there was nothing in it.
"You know how fond we are of you, and the pleasure it always gives us to get a glimpse of you.

(Not that we have not also very pleasant associations with your wife,[1] but she is as yet stranger to us of course.) But we went away in search of complete repose.

And in the Black Forest there was not a soul to speak to, and we liked it so much as to stay on there.
[Footnote 1: I had married my second wife on the 29th of October, 1866.] "We contemplate moving southwards in the spring, and if we go to Italy and come _near_ Florence, we shall assuredly make a _detour_ and come and see you.