Dear Sir:

Your kind approval of my little work is reward enough for all pains spent upon it, while your expressions concerning my father will be treasured by his children as precious beyond comparison—¹

For your thoughtfulness in suggesting an English edition of “What M^r. Darwin Saw” I am very grateful. I believe my publishers made some advances to M^r. Murray before the book was put in type, and before, therefore, he could judge of its character.² Encouraged by your initiative, they now write me that they have resumed the negotiation. I can for my part see no obstacle to the English copyright, unless it reside in the borrowed illustrations, for which, perhaps, substitutes might be found—indeed, might well be found in some cases.

I have just returned from a visit to my friend M^r. Lewis H. Morgan, at Rochester, where I had the pleasure of seeing several letters from your hand in his collected correspondence.³ This excursion has delayed my acknowledgment of your two letters, and I make it now with the reluctance which one must ever feel to encroach upon your time even under the obligations of civility.

Believe me, | Your much honored & indebted serv^t, | Wendell P. Garrison

Cha^s. Darwin, Esq.