FRANCIS GALTON TO CHARLES DARWIN.

42, Rutland Gate, London, S.W., December 9th, 1859.
Pray let me add a word of congratulation on the completion of your wonderful volume, to those which I am sure you will have received from every side.

I have laid it down in the full enjoyment of a feeling that one rarely experiences after boyish days, of having been initiated into an entirely new province of knowledge, which, nevertheless, connects itself with other things in a thousand ways.

I hear you are engaged on a second edition.

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