Your correspondent Mr. Geach is now in England, and if you would like to see him I am sure he would be glad to meet you. He is staying with his brother (address Guildford), but often comes to town.
Hoping that you have quite recovered from your accident and that the _great work_ is progressing, believe me, dear Darwin, yours very faithfully,
P.S.--You will perhaps be pleased to hear that German, French, and Danish translations of my "Malay Archipelago" are in progress.--A.R.W.
_Caerleon, Barmouth, N. Wales. June 25, 1869._
My dear Wallace,--We have been here a fortnight, and shall remain here till the beginning of August. I can say nothing good about my health, and I am so weak that I can hardly crawl half a mile from the house; but I hope I may improve, and anyhow the magnificent view of Cader is enjoyable.
I do not know that I have anything to ask Mr. Geach, nor do I suppose I shall be in London till late in the autumn, but I should be particularly obliged, if you have any communication with Mr. Geach, if you would express for me my _sincere_ thanks for his kindness in sending me the very valuable answers on Expression. I wrote some months ago to him in answer to his last letter.
I would ask him to Down, but the fatigue to me of receiving a stranger is something which to you would be utterly unintelligible.
I think I have heard of the scales on butterflies; but there are lots of sexual characters which quite baffle all powers of even conjecture.
You are quite correct, that I felt forced to make all additions to the "Origin" as short as possible.
I am indeed pleased to hear, and fully expected, that your Malay work would be known throughout Europe.
Oh dear! what would I not give for a little more strength to get on with my work.--Ever yours,
I wish that you could have told me that your place in the new Museum was all settled.
_9 St. Mark's Crescent, N.W. October 20, 1869._
Dear Darwin,--I do not know your son's (Mr. George Darwin's) address at Cambridge. Will you be so good as to forward him the enclosed note begging for a little information?
I was delighted to see the notice in the _Academy_ that you are really going to bring out your book on Man. I anticipate for it an enormous sale, and shall read it with intense interest, although I expect to find in it more to differ from than in any of your other books. Some reasonable and reasoning opponents are now taking the field. I have been writing a little notice of Murphy's "Habit and Intelligence," which, with much that is strange and unintelligible, contains some very acute criticisms and the statement of a few real difficulties. Another article just sent me from the _Month_ contains some good criticism. How incipient organs can be useful is a real difficulty, so is the independent origin of similar complex organs; but most of his other points, though well put, are not very formidable. I am trying to begin a little book on the Distribution of Animals, but I fear I shall not make much of it from my idleness in collecting facts.
