Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition

I cannot close this letter without asking your pardon for some expressions, too sharp, perhaps, in my former letters, about your vast geological conceptions. The very exaggeration of my expressions must have shown you how little weight I attached to my objections. . . . My desire is always to listen and to learn. Taught from my youth to believe that the organization of past times was somewhat tropical in character, and startled therefore at these glacial interruptions, I cried ‘Heresy!’ at first. But should we not always listen to a friendly voice like yours? I am interested in whatever is printed on these topics; so, if you have published anything at all complete lately on the ensemble of your geological ideas, have the great kindness to send it to me through a book-seller. . . .

Shall I tell you anything of my own poor and superannuated works? The sixth volume is wanting to my ‘Geography of the Fifteenth Century’ (Examen Critique). It will appear this summer. I am also printing the second volume of a new work to be entitled ‘Central Asia.’ It is not a second edition of ‘Asiatic ’