Dear Sir

I wish I could give you any information as I look at your cause as one of the most important in which any man can engage—² I suspect most monkeys would take habitually to alcohol if they could get it. I heard lately of a publican who keeps several monkeys & his customers give them drink so that they become quite tipsy— It is very difficult to draw a just line between scepticism & credulity in natural history but I sh’d not believe the Elephant story without very good & detailed evidence—³ It is almost incredible how utterly untrustworthy the stories of men not trained in science are, as I have learned by long experience & of which I could give many amusing instances

Dear Sir | yours faithfully | Ch: Darwin