1890 COEEESPONDENCE WITH DE. ASA GEAY 161 

 To Professor Asa Gray. 



May 16, 1883. 



Dear Professor Gray, — The receipt of your kind 

 letter of the 1st instant has given me in full measure 

 the sincerest kind of pleasure ; for in the light sup- 

 plied by your second letter communicated to 

 1 Nature ' I came deeply to regret my misunderstand- 

 ing of the spirit in which you wrote the first one, and 

 now you enable me to feel that we have shaken 

 hands over the matter. 



For my own part I am always glad when differ- 

 ences in matter of opinion admit of being honestly 

 expressed without enmity, and still more so when, as 

 in the present case, this discussion leads to a basis of 

 friendship. I therefore thank you most heartily for 

 your letter, and remain yours very truly, 



G. J. EOMANES. 



P.S. — If you have not already happened to read a 

 book called 'A Candid Examination of Theism,' I should 

 like to send you a copy. I wrote it six or seven years 

 ago and published it anonymously in 1878. I do not 

 now hold to all the arguments, nor should I express 

 myself so strongly on the argumentative force of the 

 remainder, but I should like you to read the book, in 

 order to show you how gladly I would enter your 

 camp if I could only see that it is on the side of 

 Truth. 



December 30, 1883. 



Dear Professor Gray, — I sent you my papers as a 

 return for those which you so kindly sent to me, and 



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