1882 ME. DAE WIN'S POETEAIT 119 



To C. Darwin, Esq. 



18 Cornwall Terrace, Eegent's Park, N.W. : July 1. 



I have told Collier that he had now better write 

 to you direct at whatever time he intends to make his 

 final arrangements with you as to place and time of 

 sitting. He has just finished a portrait of me, which 

 my mother had painted as a present to my wife. It 

 is exceedingly good, and as all his recent portraits are 

 the same — notably one of Huxley — I am very glad 

 that he is to paint you. Besides, he is such a 

 pleasant man to talk to, that the sittings are not so 

 tedious as they would be with a less intelhgent 

 man. 



I shall certainly read the ' Creed of Science ' as 

 soon as I can. The German book on Evolution I 

 have not yet looked at, as I have been giving all my 

 time to my own book. This is now finished. But 

 talking of my time, I do not see how the two or three 

 hours which I have spent in arranging to have a 

 portrait, which will be of so much historical im- 

 portance, taken by a competent artist, could well have 

 been better employed. 



You will see that I have got into a row with 

 Carpenter over the thought-reading. Everybody 

 thinks he made a mistake in lending himself to 

 Bishop's design of posing as a scientific wonder. 

 Bishop is a very sly dog, and has played his cards 

 passing well. In an article which he published two 

 years ago in an American newspaper, he explains the 

 philosophy of advertising, and says the first thing to 



