WCP2275

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[5 York Gate Regents Park N.W.

14 oct. 1871]

Sir

When reading your Essays¹ again the other day, I was much struck and pleased to find, towards the latter part of your volume, several coincidences in speculation & in feeling with some ideas which I had tried to express, before I had even seen your Essays, in a metrical form. I have therefore taken the liberty of giving myself the pleasure of sending a copy of the little book² in [2] which I published these verses. They are named the 'forces of nature': & if you care to look at them, you will, I hope, remember, that deeply as the progress of Physical Science interests me, I have, myself, no claim or pretension to speak except as a 'layman' or outsider. As such, may I add here my thanks to you for the great pleasure & gain which your book has been to me — even more [3] from its general tone than from its series of arguments. This feeling, and your friendship with my very highly valued cousin Joseph Hooker,³ are what I must plead as my excuse for thus bringing myself before you.

Faithfully your's | F. T. Palgrave⁴ [signature]

5 York Gate

Regents Park

N.W.

14 oct 1871

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