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well-earned present and I feel assured grand future 

 success. 



Yours very truly, 



CH. DAKWIN. 



P.S. 28th. Can you spare time to come down 

 here any day this week, except Saturday, to dine and 

 sleep here ? We should be very glad indeed if you 

 can come. If so, I would suggest your leaving 

 Charing Cross by the 4.12 train, and we would send 

 a carriage to Orpington to meet you, and send you 

 back next morning. In this case let us have a line 

 fixing your day. It will be dull for you, for none of 

 my sons except Frank are at home. 



The extraordinary modesty, the absolute sim- 

 plicity, the fatherly kindness, which breathe in this 

 letter, cannot but give some idea of what Mr. Darwin 

 was and why he was so much loved. 



Dunskaith, Eoss- shire : August 29, 1878. 



My dear Mr. Darwin, I only returned here yes- 

 terday and found your letter awaiting me. 



Your letter has made me as proud as Punch, and 

 as you have such a good opinion of the line of work, 

 I think I shall adopt your plan of working up the 

 subject well before I publish the book. The greatest 

 difficulty I had in writing the lecture was to make it 

 short enough, but it will be splendid to be able to 

 spread oneself over the whole subject in a book. I 

 was at one time in doubt whether it would be better 

 to spend time over this subject or over something 



