From F. M. Balfour   10 July 1881

My dear Mr. Darwin

It is extremely kind of you to suggest sending your spare copy of my book to Fritz Müller & I enclose a slip of paper with ‘From the author’ written on it; though I feel that under the circumstances the book ought to be rather regarded as your gift than as mine.

In any case there is nobody to whom it would please me more to have the copy sent than to Fritz Müller.¹

I thank you most heartily for your kind congratulations on the completion of the work, & I only trust that it may prove worthy of the praise you have bestowed on it.

Yours very sincerely | F. M. Balfour