To my own mind my MS.

relieved me of some few difficulties, and the difficulties seemed to me pretty fairly stated; but I had become so bewildered with conflicting facts--evidence, reasoning and opinions--that I felt to myself that I had lost all judgment.

Your general verdict is incomparably more favourable than I had anticipated.
Very many thanks for your invitation.

I had made up my mind, on my poor wife's account, not to come up to next Phil.

Club; but I am so much tempted by your invitation, and my poor dear wife is so good-natured about it, that I think I shall not resist--i.e., if she does not get worse.