Dear Mr Darwin

I enclose a paper (not finished) about Primitive man—¹ there is very little what is new in it and I only wrote it to enlighten the people here on your theory. Let us be thankful for small favours, and if I did not do you justice I have at all events tried to explain as well as I could what we are and where we come from. The “Mail” belongs to Mr Fairfax Proprietor of the “Herald” rather a thorough believer in revealed Religion though he allows me to give an opinion now and then as long as do not come it too strong²

I had a visit yesterday from the Bishop of Bathurst (you know the place)³   he brought me some old nail or spike found in Wales which I accepted with thanks   I asked him afterwards if he did not come across any stone weapons and he said no; remarking at the same time that I probably alluded to the weapons which have been found in france and from which people wanted to prove the age of the human race

I said these were the things I alluded to, but declined going into particulars regarding their age because no person could tell how many thousand or millions of years that amounted to. I exhibited a large number of photographs of such weapons to “His Lordship” & asked him to send me some if he should meet with any which he promised to do.—

I send you by book post the bits of earth made by the worms & a Catalogue of the Australian Lepidoptera⁴ & I also enclose a translation of a few verses not done into english by Mr Dallas when he he did the “man of the present past & future”⁵ & I hope you will not think the worse of me because I tried my hand at such things as “Das Ding an sich”

Yours sincerely | Gerard Krefft