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viz. at nine or ten o'clock, or at whatever hour (if you keep 

 early ship hours) you finish your breakfast. Pray remember 

 me very kindly to Mrs. Fitz-Roy, who I trust is able to look 

 at her long voyage with boldness. 



Believe me, dear Fitz-Roy, 



Your ever truly obliged, 



CHARLES DARWIN, 



[A quotation from another letter (1846) to Fitz-Roy may be 

 worth giving, as showing my father's affectionate remembrance 

 of his old Captain. 



" Farewell, dear Fitz-Roy, I often think of your many acts 

 of kindness to me, and not seldomest on the time, no doubt 

 quite forgotten by you, when, before making Madeira, you 

 came and arranged my hammock with your own hands, and 

 which, as I afterwards heard, brought tears into my father's 

 eyes."] 



C. Darivin to W. D. Fox. 



[Down, September 5, 1843.] 



Monday morning. 



MY DEAR Fox, When I sent off the glacier paper, I was 

 just going out and so had no time to write. I hope your friend 

 will enjoy (and I wish you were going there with him) his tour 

 as much as I did. It was a kind of geological novel. But your 

 friend must have patience, for he will not get a good glacial 

 eye for a few days. Murchison and Count Keyserling rushed 

 through North Wales the same autumn and could see nothing 

 except the effects of rain trickling over the rocks ! I cross- 

 examined Murchison a little, and evidently saw he had looked 

 carefully at nothing. I feel certain about the glacier-effects in 

 North Wales. Get up your steam, if this weather lasts, and 

 have a ramble in Wales ; its glorious scenery must do every 

 one's heart and body good. I wish I had energy to come to 

 Delamere and go with you ; but as you observe, you might as 



