If you throw light on the want of geological time, may honour, eternal
glory and blessings crowd thick on your head.--Yours most sincerely,
CH. DARWIN.
I forgot to say that I wrote to Dr. M. to say that I should not soon be
in London, and that, of all things in the world, I hate most the bother
of sitting for photographs, so I declined with many apologies. I have
recently refused several applications.
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_9 St. Mark's Crescent, N.W. January 22, 1870._
Dear Darwin,--My paper on Geological Time having been in type nearly two
months, and not knowing when it will appear, I have asked for a proof to
send you, Huxley and Lyell. The latter part only contains what I think
is new, and I shall be anxious to hear if it at all helps to get over
your difficulties.
I have been lately revising and adding to my various papers bearing on
the "Origin of Species," etc., and am going to print them in a volume
immediately, under the title of "Contributions to the Theory of Natural
Selection: A Series of Essays."
In the last, I put forth my heterodox opinions as to Man, and even
venture to attack the Huxleyan philosophy!
Hoping you are quite well and are getting on with your Man book, believe
me, dear Darwin, yours very faithfully,
ALFRED R.
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