He looks very young and innocent.

Stokes is connected with Cambridge, but lives in London, just as Professor Powell is connected with Oxford, but also lives in London.

Several gentlemen spoke to me without a special introduction--one told me his name was Dr.Townby [Qy., Toynbie], and he was a great admirer of Emerson--the first case of the sort I have met.
"Dr.Townby is a young man not over thirty, full of enthusiasm and progress, like an American.

He really seemed to me all alive, and is either a genius or crazy--the shade between is so delicate that I can't always tell to which a person belongs! I asked him if Babbage was in the room, and he said, 'Not yet,' so I hoped he would come.
"He told me that a fine-looking, white-headed, good-featured old man was Roget, of the 'Thesaurus;' and another old man in the corner was Dr.
Arnott, of the 'Elements of Physics.' I had supposed he was dead long ago.

Afterwards I was introduced to him.