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more fully. We had no opportunity of using your 

 kind introduction at St. Thomas'. 



The West Indies are a neglected Paradise. What 

 fools human beings are specially English ! 



Ever yours, 



C. KlNGSLEY. 



P.S. I have, I hope, opened a regular trail from 

 the West Indies to the Museum. 



Kingsley was for many years a close friend and a 

 frequent, but illegible, correspondent of Newton, who 

 suggested to him the references to the Great Auk in 

 "Water Babies." The following characteristic letter 

 was with difficulty deciphered : 



Eversley Rectory, 



June 4, 1867. 



MY DEAR NEWTON, 



Your bird books are delightful. Gladly 

 would I give up History to think of nothing but dicky 

 birds : but it must not be yet. 



Some day, ere I grow too old to think, I trust to be 

 able to throw away all pursuits save Natural History, 

 and ^ die with my mind full of God's facts instead of 

 man's lies. 



Yours ever, 



C. KINGSLEY. 



On the back of this letter Newton wrote : 



Froude informs the Scottish youth 

 That parsons have no care for truth. 

 The Reverend Canon Kingsley cries 

 That history is a pack of lies. 



... 



What cause for judgment so malign ? 



A brief reflexion solves the mystery. 

 For Froude thinks Kingsley a divine, 



And Kingsley goes to Froude for history.* 



These verses are quoted in Froude's obituary notice in the Times 

 of October 22, 1894, and are there attributed to "the present Bishop of 

 Oxford [Stubbs]." 



