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Down Bromley Kent

Jan. 23^d /[18]59

My dear Hooker

I enclose letters to you & me from Wallace.¹ I admire extremely the spirit in which they are written. I never felt very sure what he would say. He must be an amiable man. Please return that to me, & Lyell² ought to be told how well satisfied he is. — These letters [2] have vividly brought before me how much I owe to your & Lyell’s most kind & generous conduct in all this affair. My God how glad I shall be when the abstract is finished & I can rest. —

As you have maps & knowledge I think it will cost you very little trouble to tell me about ^roughly how [3] many miles it is in [the] Himalaya, as [the] crow flies, from the most eastern ancient low-descending glacier (I presume observed by you) to those observed to the N.W. by Thompson(?)³ or others. I see Jamieson [Jameson]⁴ speaks of enormous Boulders in the Kangra valley, somewhere about the Punjab, but whether other ^former Glacial [4] action has been observed still further westerly I know not. — I only want one sentence just to make [the] case as strong as possible of ^former Glacial action in [the] Himalaya. —

Yours most truly | C. Darwin [signature]