Dear Darwin

I am very sorry you are so unwell, & that you allow criticisms to worry you so.¹ Remember the noble army of converts you have made!, & the hosts of the most talented men living who support you wholly. What do you think of putting C. Wright’s article as an Appendix to new Ed. of Origin?² That would get it read, & obviate my chief objection that the people who read Mivart & the Origin, will very few of them buy a separate pamphlet to read. Pamphlets are such nuisances. I don’t think Mivart could have written the “Quarterly” article,—but I will look at it & shall I think be able to tell.³

Pray keep your spirits up, I am so distracted by Building troubles that I can write nothing, & shall not, till I get settled in my new house some time next Spring I hope.⁴

With best wishes | Believe me | Yours very faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace

Charles Darwin Esq.