My dear Miss Buckley

Here is good news— read the enclosed, copied from note just received in M^r. Gladstone’s own hand-writing.—² I had intended to ask you to inform M^r. Wallace, but all my family thought that as M^r. Gladstone’s note was addressed to me, I ought myself to inform M^r. Wallace. This I have done telling him a little about the Memorial, but not who signed it.—³ It is evident that the D. of Argyll’s private note greatly influenced M^r. Gladstone.—⁴ I will write to the Duke.—⁵ How extraordinaryly kind of M^r. Gladstone to find time to write under present circumstances.⁶

Good Heavens how pleased I am.— In haste | Yours very truly Ch. Darwin

I suppose that M^r. Gladstone’s note ought to be considered to a certain extent private