My dear George

Your letter seems to me excellent & it was very good of you to take so much trouble. I doubt much whether a second letter is worth publishing on so hypothetical an assumption.² In fact I ought not to have written the latter part of the article, but I did not then see how I could first test it.³ But as it is published, you may say it ought to be made clear. Do as you Diliberately think best. But I sh^d not like to publish even a son’s letter as my own. You could by altering a few words in the beginning, make the whole your own.— You c^d. say that “My Father finds … & he has asked me to give a fuller explanation”,— or some such words.—

I have altered a few words & added a few. But I again say think before you send it. I am sure, however, that the letter is very good & clear. You c^d. ask for proof to be sent to Trin. Coll..⁴

Yours affectionately | Ch. Darwin

Your last & previous notes interested us greatly about yourself & Edmund L.—⁵