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to Brighton. I meant merely to thank you sincerely for wish- 

 ing to see such a worn-out old dog as myself. I hardly 

 know when we leave this place, not under a fortnight, and 

 then we shall wish to rest under our own roof-tree. 



I do not think I hardly ever admired a book more than 

 Paley's ' Natural Theology.' I could almost formerly have 

 said it by heart. 



I am glad you have got my book, but I fear that you value 

 it far too highly. I should be grateful for any criticisms. I 

 care not for Reviews ; but for the opinion of men like you 

 and Hooker and Huxley and Lyell, &c. 



Farewell, with our joint thanks to Mrs. Lubbock and 

 yourself. Adios. 



C. DARWIN. 



C. Darwin to L. Jenyus* 



Ilkley, Yorkshire, 



November I3th, 1859. 



MY DEAR JENYNS, I must thank you for your very kind 

 note forwarded to me from Down. I have been much out 

 of health this summer, and have been hydropathising here for 

 the last six weeks with very little good as yet. I shall stay 

 here for another fortnight at least. Please remember that my 

 book is only an abstract, and very much condensed, and, to 

 be at all intelligible, must be carefully read. I shall be very 

 grateful for any criticisms. But I know perfectly well that 

 you will not at all agree with the lengths which I go. It took 

 long years to convert me. I may, of course, be egregiously 

 wrong ; but I cannot persuade myself that a theory which 

 explains (as I think it certainly does) several large classes 

 of facts, can be wholly wrong ; notwithstanding the several 

 difficulties which have to be surmounted somehow, and which 

 stagger me even to this day. 



I wish that my health had allowed me to publish in 



* Now Rev. L. Blomefield. 



