76-1/2 Westbourne Grove, Bayswater, W. October 1, 1867.
Dear Darwin,—I am sorry I was not in town when your note came. I took a short trip to Scotland after the British Association Meeting, and went up Ben Lawers. It was very cold and wet, and I could not find a companion or I should have gone as far as Glen Roy.
My article on "Creation by Law," in reply to the Duke of Argyll and the North British reviewer, is in the present month's number of the Quarterly Journal of Science. I cannot send you a copy because they do not allow separate copies to be printed.
There is a nice illustration of the predicted Madagascar moth and Angræcum sesquipedale.
I shall be glad to know whether I have done it satisfactorily to you, and hope you will not be so very sparing of criticism as you usually are.
I hope you are getting on well with your great book. I hear a rumour that we are to have one vol. of it about Christmas.
I quite forget whether I told you that I have a little boy, now three months old, and have named him Herbert Spencer (having had a brother Herbert). I am now staying chiefly in the country, at Hurstpierpoint, but come up to town once a month at least. You may address simply, "Hurstpierpoint, Sussex."
Hoping your health is tolerable and that all your family are well, believe me, dear Darwin, yours very faithfully,
ALFRED R. WALLACE.