The Wallace-Darwin Correspondence 



If you had not told me I should have thought that they 

 had been added by someone else. As you expected, I differ 

 grievously from you, and I am very sorry for it. 



I can see no necessity for calling in an additional and 

 proximate cause in regard to Man. But the subject is too 

 long for a letter. 



I have been particularly glad to read your discussion, 

 because I am now writing and thinking much about Man. 



I hope that your Malay book sells well. I was extremely 

 pleased with the article in the Q, J. of Science^ inasmuch as 

 it is thoroughly appreciative of your work. Alas ! you will 

 probably agree with what the writer says about the uses of 

 the bamboo. 



I hear that there is also a good article in the Saturday 

 Review, but have heard nothing more about it. — Believe me, 

 my dear Wallace, yours ever sincerely, qh. Darwin. 



P.S. — I have had a baddish fall, my horse partly rolling 

 over me ; but I am getting rapidly well. 



9 SL Mark's Crescent, N.W. April 18, 1869. 



Dear Darwin, — I am very glad you think I have done 

 justice to Lyell, and have also well ^^ exposed '^ (as a French- 

 man would say) Natural Selection. There is nothing I like 

 better than writing a little account of it, and trying to make 

 it clear to the meanest capacity. 



The '* Croll *' question is awfully difficult . I had gone 

 into it more fully, but the Editor made me cut out eight 

 pages. 



I am very sorry indeed to hear of your accident, but 

 trust you will soon recover and that it will leave no 

 bad effects. 



I can quite comprehend your feelings with regard to my 

 " unscientific *' opinions as to Man, because a few years back 



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