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0. B. to Mrs. Haliburton* Down, November 22, 1880. 



My dear Sarah, — You see how audaciously I begin ; but I 

 have always loved and shall ever love this name. Your letter 

 has done more than please me, for its kindness has touched my 

 heart. I often think of old days and of the delight of my 

 visits to Woodhouse, and of the deep debt of gratitude which I 

 owe to your father. It was very good of you to write. I had 

 quite forgotten my old ambition about the Shrewsbury news- 

 paper ; f but I remember the pride which I felt when I saw 

 in a book about beetles the impressive words " captured by 

 C. Darwin." Captured sounded so grand compared with caught. 

 This seemed to me glory enough for any man ! I do not know 

 in the least what made the Times glorify me, for it has some- 

 times pitched into me ferociously. 



I should very much like to see you again, but you would 

 find a visit here very dull, for we feel very old and have no 

 amusement, and lead a solitary life. But we intend in a few 

 weeks to spend a few days in London, and then if you have 

 anything else to do in London, you would perhaps come and 

 lunch with us. 



Believe me, my dear Sarah, 



Yours gratefully and affectionately. 



The following letter was called forth by the publication of a 

 volume devoted to the criticism of the Power of Movement in 

 Plants by an accomplished botanist, Dr. Julius Wiesner, Pro- 

 fessor of Botany in the University of Vienna : 



C. D. to Julius Wiesner. Down, October 25th, 1881. 



My dear Sir, — I have now finished your book,J and have 

 understood the whole except a very few passages. In the first 

 place, let me thank you cordially for the manner in which you 

 have everywhere treated me. You have shown how a man 

 may differ from another in the most decided manner, and yet 

 express his difference with the most perfect courtesy. Not a 



* Mrs. Haliburton was a daughter of my father's early friend, the late 

 Mr. Owen, of Woodhouse. 



t Mrs. Haliburton had reminded him of his saying as a boy that if 

 Eddowes' newspaper ever alluded to him as " our deserving fellow- 

 townsman," his ambition would be amply gratified. 



X Das Bewegungsvermdgen der Pflaneen. Vienna, 1881. 



