Volume I Part 49 (1/2)

I know that Lyell has been INFINITELY kind about ives the idea that Lyell had unfairly urged Murray

CHARLES DARWIN TO ASA GRAY April 4th [1859]

You ask to see my sheets as printed off; I assure you that it will be the HIGHEST satisfaction to h coet a request which I look at as a favour But (and it is a heavy ”but” to o to press; I can truly say I am NEVER idle; indeed, I work too hard for my much weakened health; yet I can do only three hours of work daily, and I cannot at all see when I shall have finished: I have done eleven long chapters, but I have got soy, classifications, and eely to all those done I find, alas! each chapter takes e three ressions I have just finished a chapter on Instinct, and here I found grappling with such a subject as bees'

cells, and co twenty years, took up a despairing length of tiotistical style Yet I ain found your letters, which I have lately been looking over and quoting! but you need not fear that I shall quote anything you would dislike, for I try to be very cautious on this head Iyour ”incubus” of old work off your hands, and be in soain let rateful to you

CHARLES DARWIN TO J MURRAY Down, April 5th [1859]

My dear Sir,

I send by this post, the title (with soe), and the first three chapters If you have patience to read all Chapter I, I honestly think you will have a fair notion of the interest of the whole book It may be conceit, but I believe the subject will interest the public, and I ainal If you think otherwise, I must repeat h I shall be a little disappointed, I shall be in no way injured

If you choose to read Chapters II and III, you will have a dull and rather abstruse chapter, and a plain and interesting one, in my opinion

As soon as you have done with the MS, please to send it by CAREFUL MESSENGER, AND PLAINLY DIRECTED, to Miss G Tollett, 14, Queen Anne Street, Cavendish Square

This lady, being an excellent judge of style, is going to look out for errors for me

You must take your own time, but the sooner you finish, the sooner she will, and the sooner I shall get to press, which I so earnestly wish

I presume you ish to see Chapter IV, the key-stone of my arch, and Chapters X and XI, but please to inform me on this head

My dear Sir, yours sincerely, C DARWIN

CHARLES DARWIN TO JD HOOKER Down, April 11th [1859]

I write one line to say that I heard from Murray yesterday, and he says he has read the first three chapters of one MS(and this includes a very dull one), and he abides by his offer Hence he does not want raphical chapter when it pleases you

[Part of the MS seems to have been lost on its way back to my father; he wrote (April 14) to Sir JD Hooker:]

”I have the old MS, otherwise, the loss would have killedto press, and FAR WORST of all, lose all advantage of your having looked over my chapter, except the third part returned I a the two pages”

CHARLES DARWIN TO JD HOOKER [April or May, 1859]

Please do not say to any one that I thought my book on Species would be fairly popular, and have a fairly reht of my ambition), for if it prove a dead failure, it would make me the more ridiculous

I enclose a criticism, a taste of the future--

REV S HAUGHTON'S ADDRESS TO THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, DUBLIN (February 9, 1859)

”This speculation of Messrs Darwin and Wallace would not be worthy of notice were it not for the weight of authority of the names (ie