To Annie Dowie 4 August [1875]1
Down, Beckenham, Kent
4th August
[… thanking … for] your promised intercession with your sister [… and sending an] autograph—as you care to have it— The extract from your Fathers diary will be quite sufficient […]’2
Footnotes
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to Annie Dowie, 1 August [1875].
CD had asked Dowie for further information relating to the apparent regrowth of a finger amputated from the hand of her sister, Alice Chambers (letter to Annie Dowie, 27 July 1875). Dowie’s reply included extracts from the diary of her father, Robert Chambers (letter from Annie Dowie, [after 27 July 1875]).
Summary
CD sends his thanks for her intercession with her sister [Alice Chambers]. The extract from her father’s [Robert Chambers] diary will be sufficient.
He forwards the requested autograph.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10108A
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Anne (Annie) Chambers/Anne (Annie) Dowie
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Sophie Dupré (dealer) (Catalogue 25, 1992)
- Physical description
- AL inc
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10108A,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10108A.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23
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