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Darwin Correspondence Project

To ?   30 June [1875–81]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

June 30th

Dear Sir

I have not heard of the essay to which you refer, & if you have a spare copy (& if it is small), I shd like to see it.2 But whatever its nature may be, I shall not answer it, as doing so wastes much time.—

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

The year range is established by the headed notepaper, which is of a sort that CD used from November 1874 until his death in April 1882.
The recipient and the essay have not been identified.

Summary

Asks for copy of [unspecified] essay, but will not answer it.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-10552
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Unidentified
Sent from
Down
Source of text
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.496)
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10552,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10552.xml

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