WCP3756

[1]¹

80 Huntingdon Road,

Cambridge²

Dear M^r Huxley

Many thanks for your letter. I am glad you thought about asking my uncle — it is clear he should be consulted. I will leave out "imposter"[?] x "cheat" I am glad you are so perfectly clear about the Origin — still I wonder that he did not say as he did to Hooker³ [2] in his first evolutionary letter "My conclusions are not widely different from Lamarcks⁴; tho' the means of change are wholly [1 word illeg.] I cannot help wishing you would slay Butler, I think he would change his opinion as to the pleasure of notoriety. But in reality I have no doubt you are right not to.

[3] My father speaks of a splendid revised by Wallace of the Descent — Do you remember where it was published — It was not Quarterly ^{(as you know better than most)}, Edinburgh or Nature. If you do remember w[oul]d you send me a postcard.

Yours v[ery] truly | Francis Darwin