Dear Sir,

I herewith send you the facsimile reproduction of your handwriting, and beg you will be kind enough to let me know if you like the manner in wh: it has been executed.¹ At the same time accept my warmest thanks for your courteous attention. I am sure that the paragraph as well as the specimen of your handwriting are a great ornament to our publication, and will be received with the greatest pleasure by your numerous friends and admirers. I can at least vouch for my own countrymen.

If you can possibly send me for the same purpose of a facsimile reproduction an interesting note or letter of your celebrated Grandfather, I shall feel greatly obliged to you.²

I beg to enclose a biographical notice intended for that purpose, which was chiefly extracted from Miss Seward’s “Life of Dr. Erasmus Darwin”.³ I copied and compiled it some time ago but cannot remember the biographical compilations I made use of for that purpose.

With renewed thanks for your kindness, believe me to remain | Your’s very faithfully | Hermann Kindt

Charles Darwin Esq. M.A., F.R.S., etc.