WCP1837

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9, St. Marks’ Crescent

N.W.

Oct[obe]^r. 1st.¹

Dear Sir Charles

I have put all the new passages and abstracts I have made, together. They are all paged so that you will easily find where they come in. A good many smaller additions ^alterations & considerations are made by verbal alterations ^corrections in the letter press & by commissions of passages. The most important of the new passages is that on "Glacial origin of Lakes". I have endeavoured [2] to put this as much as I could in your style, though no doubt it will require considerable alteration at your hands.

I have not done any polishing to the passages I have written, because they may require much alteration before being finally adopted.

Though I sh[oul]^d not wish to see your book as [one word illegible] of Murray’s series, yet I should greatly wish to see it [3] as much condensed and as cheap, so I hope you will not think of restoring too many of the passages we have agreed to strike out.

I shall now be at home all the Autumn & Winter as far as I know at present, & shall be able to call any morning you like to fix.

I am sending a very clever but strange book— "Murphy’s Habit & Intelligence²". It contains [4] some very acute criticisms on Darwin, Spencer &c. and a very novel theory of an unconscious intelligence in nature!

Believe me | Yours very faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

Sir C. Lyell, Bart.