To R. A. Blair 4 [August] 18781
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
July 4th 1878
Dear Sir
I write one line to acknowledge your letter & to thank you for all your extraordinary kindness.—2 I have written to Prof. Flower with all particulars, & urged him to examine carefully the wings.—3 I suspect that it is near his holidays, when he leaves London, so there may be some delay in the investigation.— You shall hear hereafter.
In Haste | Dear Sir | yours faithfully & obliged | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
CD misdated his letter 4 July instead of 4 August 1878. This letter is a reply to the letter from R. A. Blair, 17 July 1878, which arrived on 4 August (see n. 3, below).
See letter to W. H. Flower, 4 [August] 1878 and n. 1.
Summary
Thanks RAB for kindness. Says W. H. Flower will examine wings [of geese].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11589
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Reuben Almond Blair
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.540)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11589,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11589.xml
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