1858.] THE "LINNEAN" PAPER. 119 



justice of the case. First impressions are generally right, and 

 I at first thought it would be dishonourable in me now to 

 publish. 



Yours most truly, 



C. DARWIN. 



P.S. I have always thought you would make a first-rate 

 Lord Chancellor ; and I now appeal to you as a .Lord 

 Chancellor. 



C. Darwin to J. D. Hooker. 



Down, Tuesday [June 29, 1858]. 



.... I have received your letters. I cannot think now * 

 on the subject, but soon will. But I can see that you have 

 acted with more kindness, and so has Lyell, even than I could 

 have expected from you both, most kind as you are. 



I can easily get my letter to Asa Gray copied, but it is too 

 short. 



.... God bless you. You shall hear soon, as soon as I 

 can think. 



Yours affectionately, 



C. DARWIN. 



C. Darwin to J. D. Hooker. 



Tuesday night [June 29, 1858]. 



MY DEAR HOOKER, I have just read your letter, and see 

 you want the papers at once. I am quite prostrated, and 

 can do nothing, but I send Wallace, and the abstract f of my 

 letter to Asa Gray, which gives most imperfectly only the 

 means of change, and does not touch on reasons for believing 

 that species do change. I dare say all is too late. I hardly 



* So soon after the death, from sense also it occurs in the ' Linnean 



scarlet fever, of his infant child. Journal,' where the sources of my 



t " Abstract " is here used in father's paper are described, 

 the sense of " extract : " in this 



