WCP5458

[1]

9, St. Mark’s Crescent

Regent’s Park

London. N. W.

August 28th.¹

Dear Sir

I thank you very much for your kind offer to receive me at your house during the meeting of the British Association, and I shall have great pleasure in accepting your invitation if you are still inclined to give it when you know that I am considered a [‘]great sceptic’, & am a disciple of Mill, Spencer, Darwin, Lyell, Huxley & Co[mpany].²

[2] I ought perhaps to have said nothing about this, but I hate hypocrisy, & we Southerners have no doubt exaggerated notions of the extreme theological views prevalent in Scotland.

I send you two of my papers, & if when you have read them you are still willing to extend me your hospitality, I will cordially accept it. [3]

I propose leaving London on Tuesday night, & ought to reach Dundee about 1:15 pm. on Wednesday.

As for accommodation, an old traveller like myself can be quite comfortable in a room six feet square.

Believe me | Dear sir³