Dear Sir

I am much indebted to you for your kindness in writing to me & sending me the extracts.² I formerly collected a good many facts bearing on the subject to which you refer, & have briefly touched on the subject in my Variation of Animals under Domestication Vol. 2. Chapt 22. p. 264.—³ I have there just alluded to my reasons for not believing that actual resemblances can thus originate, though of course I do not wish to deny that a strong mental shock, like any bodily injury, may cause an arrest of development in the embryo & thus induce various monstrosities.

With my thanks | I beg leave to remain | Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin