CHARLES DARWIN TO J.D. HOOKER. [April or May, 1859].
...Please do not say to any one that I thought my book on Species would be fairly popular, and have a fairly remunerative sale (which was the height of my ambition), for if it prove a dead failure, it would make me the more ridiculous.
I enclose a criticism, a taste of the future—
REV. S. HAUGHTON'S ADDRESS TO THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, DUBLIN. (February 9, 1859.)
"This speculation of Messrs. Darwin and Wallace would not be worthy of notice were it not for the weight of authority of the names (i.e. Lyell's and yours), under whose auspices it has been brought forward. If it means what it says, it is a truism; if it means anything more, it is contrary to fact."
Q.E.D.
CHARLES DARWIN TO J.D. HOOKER. Down, May 11th [1859].
My dear Hooker,
Thank you for telling me about obscurity of style. But on my life no nigger