Dear Lady Lyell.

I am going to beg a very, very great favour of you— it is to translate one Page (& the title) of either Danish or Swedish or some such language.—² I know not to whom else to apply & I am quite dreadfully interested about the Barnacles therin described.— Does Lyell know Loven, or his address & title? for I must write to him; if Lyell knows him I w^d use his name as introduction; Loven I know by name as a first rate naturalist.³

Accidentally I forgot to give you the “Footsteps”⁴ which I now return, having ordered a copy for myself.—

I sincerely hope the “Craters of Denudation”⁵ prosper; I pin my faith to this view. Please tell Sir C. Lyell that outside the crater-like mountains at S^t. Jago, even throughout a distance of 2 or 3 miles there has been much denudation of the older Volcanic rocks contemporaneous with those of the ring of mountains.⁶

I hope that you will not find the page troublesome & that you will forgive me asking you.

Pray believe me | Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin.

We all young & old are in a very flourishing condition.