My dear Romanes

I am very glad the portrait affair has been arranged as it has been, but I fear that it must have caused you a good deal of bother.— I imagined that Murie spoke to me as the mouth-piece of some little committee; & otherwise he had no right to speak, but I rejoice that you have managed to tide over the affair without annoying him, for I like all the little which I have seen of him.—²

We return home on July 5^th & I shall be busy for about a week with proof-sheets & miscellanea, & sh^d. be then ready for M^r. Collier, if it suits him.—³ On August 2^d to 4^th I must be in London for an engagement.—⁴ With respect to subscriptions, I think that I had better take no part & say nothing— It will clearly be M^r Colliers fault if he is not properly remunerated.—

We have all here been particularly interested in your account of the Bishop seance.—⁵

Have you ever been to the Lakes. This is a quite wonderfully beautiful place, but I think that Borrowdale, where we spent a $\frac{1}{2}$ day is even more beautiful.—⁶

You seem to be one of those men who find time for everything, otherwise I sh^d. advise you not to waste your time about portraits of old worn-out men.

My dear Romanes | Yours very sincerely | Charles Darwin

I am reading (but have read only about 100 pages) a very well written book, which interests me much, yet I suspect that several of his fundamental propositions have no foundation. It is “The Creed of Science” by W. Graham. He is, I think, a very able man, but who & what he is I know not. He sent me the book, which has so far interested me much.⁷