Volume I Part 49 (2/2)

Lyell's and yours), under whose auspices it has been brought forward If itmore, it is contrary to fact”

QED

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

My dear Hooker,

Thank you for telling er with lash over him could have worked harder at clearness than I have done But the very difficulty to me, of itself leads to the probability that I fail Yet one lady who has read all my MS has found only two or three obscure sentences, but Mrs Hooker having so found it, ood man to take the trouble to write about it

With respect to our o over the chapter I will see what I can do, but I hardly kno I am obscure, and I think we are somehow in afrom some fundamentally different notions”--Letter of May 6, 1859), I never for a ht we could not make our ideas clear to each other by talk, or if either of us had tiine from some expressions (but if you ask me what, I could not answer) that you look at variability as soanisms, and further that there is so in character or degree IF YOU DO, I do not agree ”Reversion” again (a form of inheritance), I look at as in no way directly connected with Variation, though of course inheritance is of fundamental importance to us, for if a variation be not inherited, it is of no significance to us It was on such points as these I FANCIED that we perhaps started differently

I fear that s you say about it; and Good Lord, how I do long to have done with it!

Since the above ritten, I have received and have been MUCH INTERESTED by A Gray I ahted at his note about o round, for it is futile to give up very many species, and stop at an arbitrary line at others It is what randfather called Unitarianis Christian”

CHARLES DARWIN TO JD HOOKER Down, May 18th [1859]

My dear Hooker,

My health has quite failed I am off to-morrow for a week of Hydropathy

I am very very sorry to say that I cannot look over any proofs (Of Sir J Hooker's Introduction to the 'Flora of Australia') in the week, as my object is to drive the subject out of my head I shall return to-morroeek If it be worth while, which probably it is not, you could keep back any proofs till my return home

In haste, ever yours, C DARWIN

[Ten days later he wrote to Sir JD Hooker:

”I write one word to say that I shall return on Saturday, and if you have any proof-sheets to send, I shall be glad to do reat prostration of mind and body, but entire rest, and the douche, and 'Adaood”]

CHARLES DARWIN TO J MURRAY Down, June 14th [1859]

My dear Sir,

The diagram will do very well, and I will send it shortly to Mr West to have a few trifling corrections et on very sloith proofs I reht there would not be ht, but was rievously mistaken I find the style incredibly bad, and most difficult to make clear and smooth I am extremely sorry to say, on account of expense, and loss of time for me, that the corrections are very heavy, as heavy as possible But frolances, I still hope that later chapters are not so badly written How I could have written so badly is quite inconceivable, but I suppose it ing to ument, and not on details All I can say is, that I am very sorry

Yours very sincerely, C DARWIN

PS I have been looking at the corrections, and considering them

It seems to me that I shall put you to a quite unfair expense If you please I should like to enter into so: ork completed, you to allow in the account a fairly e for corrections, and all excess over that to be deducted from my profits, or paid by me individually