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Darwin Correspondence Project

To ?   [1860–82?]1

Charles Darwin

My health keeps much as it was; I never escape for a whole day without much discomfort, & of course as I grow older I become much weaker.—

Footnotes

The date is conjectured from the language used in the letter; CD described himself as suffering ‘much discomfort’ daily in letters in the 1860s and 1870s (see Correspondence vol. 14, letter to Asa Gray, 16 April [1866], and Correspondence vol. 26, letter to J. W. Judd, 27 June 1878).

Summary

CD’s health remains bad and as he grows older he becomes weaker.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-13876
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Unidentified
Sent from
unstated
Source of text
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/34)
Physical description
ALS 1p inc

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13876,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13876.xml

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