Dear Sir,

Mr. Greenwood, the editor of the ‘Pall Mall Gazette’, has forwarded me the letter w^h. you have done me the honour to write on the subject of my review of your last book.¹ I cannot lose any time in thanking you for writing, and I beg to do so very sincerely. I will, with your permission, defer replying to it more fully for two or three days, because I am just now writing a further piece on your views of Conscience, and my health is unluckily so indifferent that I can work but little, and I should wish to answer your letter with the care w^h. it deserves.²

Meanwhile, I only hope that I said nothing inconsistent with the greatest diffidence in my own right to speak of your work, or with a profound respect and admiration for its author.

I have the honour to be | Yours very ffully, | John Morley.

Charles Darwin, Esq.