My dear Balfour

Shortly after you left this house,¹ a letter came from D^r. Ernst Krause, in which he expressed a wish that his letter sh^d. appear in some periodical sooner than on April 1^st. in the Pop. Sc. Review. My sons concurred in this view, but there was the difficulty of getting the letter translated out of my family. I then remembered your most kind offer of translating or getting translated the letter, & sending it to Nature.² I have ventured to act on this offer, & have returned Krause’s letter to him, & have given him your address.³ If you will do this deed, it will be a great kindness, for it is painful to me in my old age to be publicly called a liar.⁴

I never hinted in the most remote manner to Krause that I sh^d. like him to publish a statement of the case.—

Believe me | my dear Balfour | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin