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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 November 1861
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 181: 6
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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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Describes her compassion for all his sufferings and writes of her wish that his gratitude could be offered to heaven as well as to herself. To her, the only relief is to try to believe that suffering and illness are from God’s hand "to help us to exalt our minds & to look forward with hope to a future state".
Thanks CD for his contribution to the memoir of Henslow [L. Jenyns, Memoir of the Rev. John Stevens Henslow (1862)].