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N the morning of January 29, 1852, I met Calderon at the steam-boat wharf by London Bridge, to start for Paris viâ Boulogne. For sometime Calderon, who had stayed there before, often urged me to go over, and would speak of the superiority of the teaching to be had there to any then obtainable in London, the advantage of working among students, each one of whom drew better than oneself, &c., &c. I was quite eager to go, and was only prevented by want of funds. These were supplied eventually by one or two generous friends. So we embarked at an early hour that winter morning, while yet scarcely daylight. I remember little of the passage beyond the fact that both of us went below at once, and