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should send it (and of this there can hardly be any question), 

 and if you think it full and ample enough, please alter the 

 date to the day on which you post it, and let that be soon. 

 The case in the Gardeners' Chronicle seems a little stronger 

 than in Mr. Matthew's book, for the passages are therein 

 scattered in three places ; but it would be mere hair-splitting 

 to notice that. If you object to my letter, please return it ; 

 but I do not expect that you will, but I thought that you 

 would not object to run your eye over it. My dear Hooker, 

 it is a great thing for me to have so good, true, and old a 

 friend as you. I owe much for science to my friends. 



Many thanks for Huxley's lecture. The latter part 

 seemed to be grandly eloquent. 



... I have gone over [the ' Edinburgh '] review again, 

 and compared passages, and I am astonished at the misrepre- 

 sentations. But I am glad I resolved not to answer. Per- 

 haps it is selfish, but to answer and think more on the subject 

 is too unpleasant. I am so sorry that Huxley by my means 

 has been thus atrociously attacked. I do not suppose you 

 much care about the gratuitous attack on you. 



Lyell in his letter remarked that you seemed to him as if 

 you were overworked. Do, pray, be cautious, and remember 

 how many and many a man has done this who thought it 

 absurd till too late. I have often thought the same. You 

 know that you were bad enough before your Indian journey. 



C. Darwin to C. Lyell. 



Down, April [1860]. 



MY DEAR LYELL, I was very glad to get your nice long 

 letter from Torquay. A press of letters prevented me writing 



other edition of my work is called for, I will insert to the foregoing 

 effect." In spite of my father's recognition of his claims, Mr. Matthew re- 

 mained unsatisfied, and complained that an article in the ' Saturday Ana- 

 lyst and Leader' was "scarcely fair in alluding to Mr. Darwin as the 

 parent of the origin of species, seeing that I published the whole that Mr. 

 Darwin attempts to prove, more than twenty-nine years ago." Saturday 

 Analyst and Leader, Nov. 24, 1860. 



