CHARLES DARWIN TO W.D. FOX. February 8th [1858].
...I am working very hard at my book, perhaps too hard. It will be very big, and I am become most deeply interested in the way facts fall into groups. I am like Croesus overwhelmed with my riches in facts, and I mean to make my book as perfect as ever I can. I shall not go to press at soonest for a couple of years...
CHARLES DARWIN TO J.D. HOOKER. February 23rd [1858].
...I was not much struck with the great Buckle, and I admired the way you stuck up about deduction and induction. I am reading his book ('The History of Civilisation.'), which, with much sophistry, as it seems to me, is WONDERFULLY clever and original, and with astounding knowledge.
I saw that you admired Mrs. Farrer's 'Questa tomba' of