My dear Sir

I received the day before yesterday your “Andes & the Amazon”, & most sincerely thank you for your present.— I feel deeply sensible of the honour which you have conferred on me by your kindly expressed Dedication, & for the frequent notices in your text of my Journal.² You will make this old book of mine quite well known in your great country.

Your work is most elegantly illustrated & got up: I have as yet had time to read only as far as page 105, but I like extremely all that I have read, & I look forward with much pleasure to each evening for continuing it

Your account of Quito is quite new to me & your descriptions bring the scenes before my eyes with much power.³ It has caused me much regret that I failed to procure information about the Horse’s tooth: I wrote a second time & called on Prof. Huxley.⁴ Each time I am sure he intended to compare the tooth & give his judgment; but in fact he undertakes much more than mortal man can do, & is half-worked to death.— I hope & fully expect that your book will be in every way highly successful.

With cordial thanks, believe me | Dear Sir | Yours truly obliged | Ch. Darwin