My dear Sir

I will wait till I hear again from you before writing to the subscribers; but I hope that it will not be much after the 10th, as I think that I ought soon to report.¹

With respect to your letter to Mr. Gladstone I should think under the present state of affairs, it would be quite hopeless to attract his attention; but I can see no objection to your publishing the letter, that is publickly writing to him. It would aid in calling attention to your work.² I should fear that the P. Office would object to your plan of distribution, and say that it would give openings to fraud.³ But on all these points my opinion is worth no more than that of any man of common sense.

My dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin