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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 15: 1847-1850: Aet. 40-43. (search)
bliged, C. Darwin. The following letter from Hugh Miller concerning Agassiz's intention of introducing The Footprints of the Creator to the American public by a slight memoir of Miller is of interest here. It is to be regretted that with this exception no letters have been found from him among Agassiz's papers, though he must have been in frequent correspondence with him, and they had, beside their scientific sympathy, a very cordial personal relation. Edinburgh, 2 Stuart street, May 25, 1850. dear Sir,—I was out of town when your kind letter reached here, and found such an accumulation of employment on my return that it is only now I find myself able to devote half an hour to the work of reply, and to say how thoroughly sensible I am of the honor you propose doing me. It never once crossed my mind when, in writing my little volume, the Footprints, I had such frequent occasion to refer to my master, our great authority in ichthyic history, that he himself would have associ