Volume I Part 26 (2/2)

Your slave discussion disturbed me much; but as you would care no more for my opinion on this head than for the ashes of this letter, I will say nothing except that it gave me some sleepless, ious state of the States particularly interested ainst the Clergy In your University chapter the Clergy, and not the State of Education, are most severely and justly handled, and this I think is very bold, for I conceive you ht crush a leaden-headed old Don, as a Don, with er of that Corporate Aniland show itself! Your apology (using the tery) for lectures, struck uments in the world on your side, are not equal to one course of Jamieson's Lectures on the other side, which I forh I had read about the 'Coalfields in North Aree really comprehended their area, their thickness and favourable position; nothing hardly astounded me more in your book

Soeneous, but I do not knohether to an extent that at all signified Ito the chapters, such as the two or three principal places visited One has no right to expect an author to write down to the zero of geographical ignorance of the reader; but I not knowing a single place, was occasionally rather plagued in tracing your course Soraph your course was traced through a half dozen places; anyone, as ignorant asparagraph left out I cut your reat coraved track I think in a second edition, interspaces here and there of one line open, would be an iprinted all na looks, also, better All the illustrations strike me as capital, and the map is an admirable volume in itself If your 'Principles' had not met with such universal admiration, I should have feared there would have been too eneral reader; certainly all that the ht style could do, has been done To ested resueologist ought to be grateful to you The surandest part; I was also deeply interested by your discussion on the origin of the Silurian fores hereafter useful to ood; but it is no use going on enu in this manner I wish there had been hts, but they are hardly worth your reading

CHARLES DARWIN TO C LYELL Down, August 25th [1845]

My dear Lyell,

This is literally the first day on which I have had any ti a letter to you

I was delighted with your letter in which you touch on Slavery; I wish the sas had been apparent in your published discussion But I will not write on this subject, I should perhaps annoy you, and raph or two in my Journal on the sin of Brazilian slavery; you perhaps will think that it is in answer to you; but such is not the case I have re which I did not hear on the coast of South America My few sentences, however, areHow could you relate so placidly that atrocious sentiive his own views, but those of a planter) about separating children fro distressed at the whites not having prospered; I assure you the contrast made me exclaim out But I have broken my intention, and so no more on this odious deadly subject

There is a favourable, but not strong enough review on you, in the ”Gardeners' Chronicle” I aas theory By the way, I was raphs and giving the the coory with extinction has reh of course it does not explain anything, it shows that until we can explain coht not to feel any surprise at not explaining extinction

I am much pleased to hear of the call for a new edition of the 'Principles': what glorious good that work has done I fear this tist the old rocks; how I shall rejoice to live to see you publish and discover another stage below the Silurian--it would be the grandest step possible, I think I a in fossil Botany; there is a fine hiatus for him to fill up in this country I will certainly call on him this winterFro which you say of his talents

CHARLES DARWIN TO JD HOOKER Shrewsbury [1845?]

My dear Hooker,

I have just received your note, which has astonished rieved me I never for one ined, that ain the day I feel most sure that the day will coainst you, if they have any sha allowed politics to blind their eyes to your qualifications, and those qualifications vouched for by Humboldt and Brown! Well, those testimonials nant by turns I cannot even take co that I shall see ed stock I a read a few of your letters, I never once doubted the position you will ultist European Botanists I can think about nothing else, otherwise I should like [to] discuss 'Cosmos' (A translation of Humboldt's 'Kosmos') with you I trust you will pay me and my wife a visit this autumn at Down I shall be at Down on the 24th, and till thenabout

My dear Hooker, allow me to call myself Your very true friend, C

DARWIN

CHARLES DARWIN TO C LYELL October 8th [1845], Shrewsbury

I have lately been taking a little tour to see a farm I have purchased in Lincolnshi+re (He speaks of his Lincolnshi+re farht a faro there this autue onto look to, but I believe few things would do this country eniture, so as to lessen the difference in land-wealth, and make more small freeholders

How atrociously unjust are the stamp lahich render it so expensive for the poor man to buy his quarter of an acre; it nation”) and then to York, where I visited the Dean of Manchester (Hon and Rev W Herbert The visit isa little tour, partly on business, and visited the Dean of Manchester, and had verytalk with him on hybrids, sterility, and variation, etc, etc He is full of self-gained knowledge, but knows surprisingly little what others have done on the same subjects He is very heterodox on 'species': not much better as es”) the great ave me much curious information I also visited Waterton at Walton Hall, and was extree fellow; at our early dinner, our party consisted of two Catholic priests and two Mulattresses! He is past sixty years old, and the day before ran down and caught a leveret in a turnip-field It is a fine old house, and the lake swarms ater-fowl I then saw Chatsworth, and was in transport with the great hothouse; it is a perfect fraght ht of old recollections My little ten-day tour ood effects did not last My wife, I a, and the children are the hope of the family, for they are all happy, life, and spirits I have been wick's review of the 'Vestiges of Creation' in the 'Edinburgh Review,' July, 1845) though I find it far from popular with our scientific readers

I think somatism of the pulpit, rather than of the philosophy of the Professor's Chair; and some of the wit strikes me as only worthy of -- in the 'Quarterly' Nevertheless, it is a grand piece of arguainst , but ell pleased to find that I had not overlooked any of the arguh I had put them to myself as feebly as lish translation is wretched, and the semi-metaphysico-politico descriptions in the first part are barely intelligible; but I think the volcanic discussion orth your attention, it has astonished rieve to find Humboldt an adorer of Von Buch, with his classification of volcanos, craters of elevation, etc, etc, and carbonic acid gas atet hoht and stick to my wearyful South America till I finish it I shall be very anxious to hear how you get on fro your ti to me We shall miss, indeed, your visits to Down, and I shall feel a lost”house of call” at Hart Street

Believe me, my dear Lyell, ever yours, C DARWIN

CHARLES DARWIN TO JD HOOKER Down, Farnborough, Kent Thursday, September, 1846

My dear Hooker,

I hope this letter will catch you at Clifton, but I have been prevented writing by being unwell, and having had the Horners here as visitors, which, with my abominable press-work, has fully occupiedti to tell you, that I wrote last, but what about I cannot re your last numbers (Sir JD Hooker's Antarctic Botany), and I send you a uniquely laudatory epistle, considering it was from a man who hardly knows a Daisy from a Dandelion to a professed Botanist

I cannot reiven me the impression, but I have that, which you state to be the case, firmly fixed on my mind, naetation What a strong fact it is, as R Brown once re calcareous ones here, which are not so under a more favourable cliet which; but you, no doubt, will knohat I refer By-the-way, there are some such cases in Herbert's paper in the 'Horticultural Journal' ('Journal of the Horticultural Society,' 1846) Have you read it: it struck inal, and bears DIRECTLY on your present researches (Sir JD Hooker was at this ti to polymorphism, variability, etc) To a NON-BOTANIST the chalk has the land; ill you not coo to Southae and stomach do not fail, for the Brit assoc (Do you not consider it your duty to be there?) And why cannot you come here afterward and WORK?

THE MONOGRAPH OF THE CIRRIPEDIA,