My dear M^r Crawley.

Pray thank your Father sincerely for me for having sent so venerable a Relic—² It is characteristic how much more most of us consider our superiors than our inferiors, that I remember more or less almost every boy above me or in the same form & very few of those below me in the school.

I am very much obliged to you for your translation which seems to me Capital—³ I fear as snapping the fingers here means being puzzled & not contempt, it will not serve my purpose— But “he has pillared his chin upon his hand” will come in under puzzled meditation.⁴

With my best thanks. | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin.

Frank is gone to Chatham for the Engineers Ball.⁵