38, Queen’s Gardens, | Bayswater.
July. 7th. 1875
Dear Darwin,
I was surprised by your new volume—wondering how, with your state of health, you had managed to make such extensive inquiries and to prepare so elaborate a statement of results. Thank you very much for it.1 I would it had come years ago, while the Biology was in progress;2 so that I might have turned its varied information to more account than I fear I shall now be able to do
Sincerely yours | Herbert Spencer
Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10049,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on