To S. T. Preston   25 October 1880

Dear Sir

I did not at all take the impression which you thought I might have done from your note.¹

I read you article on Woman with much interest, though I differ on some points,—as when you speak of inheritance as draining qualities from man—and about antiquity of mental differences in man and woman.² But I really have not strength or time for correspondence. I wish you success in all your investigations.

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin