TO MISS A. BUCKLEY
Holly House, Barking, E. March 3, 1871.
Dear Miss Buckley,—Thanks for your note. I am hard at work criticising Darwin. I admire his Moral Sense chapter as much as anything in the book. It is both original and [pg 032] the most satisfactory of all the theories, if not quite satisfactory....—Believe me yours very faithfully,
ALFRED R. WALLACE.
P.S.—Darwin's book on the whole is wonderful! There are plenty of points open to criticism, but it is a marvellous contribution to the history of the development of the forms of life.
SIR C. LYELL TO A.R. WALLACE
February 15, 1876.
Dear Wallace,—I have read the Preface,[14] and like and approve of it much. I do not believe there is a word which Darwin would wish altered. It is high time this modest assertion of your claims as an independent originator of Natural Selection should be published.—Ever most truly,
CHA. LYELL.