My dear Lyell

I have been applied to for some photographs (carte de visite) to be copied to ornament the Diplomas of Hon. members of a new Nat. Soc in Servia!!!² Will you give me one for this purpose? I possess only a full-length one of you in my own album, & the face is too small, I think, to be copied.—

I hope that you get on well with your work & have satisfied yourself on the difficult point of glacier-lakes.—³ Thank Heaven I have finished correcting the new edit. of Origin, & am at my old work of Sexual selection.—⁴

Wallace’s article struck me as admirable. How well he brought out the revolution which you effected some thirty years ago.⁵ I thought I had fully appreciated the revolution, but I was astounded at the extracts from Cuvier.—⁶ What a good sketch of nat. selection, but I was dreadfully disappointed about man: it seems to me incredibly strange & weak; & had I not known to the contrary, would have sworn it had been inserted by some other hand.—⁷ But I believe that you will not agree quite in all this.

My dear Lyell | Ever yours sincerely | C. Darwin

I have got over my crushing by my horse wonderfully—3 weeks, instead of 3 months as Paget expected.⁸