My dear Flower

I have been so poorly all the time that I have not been able to call on you, so I have lost that pleasure.—¹ It signifies little my not showing you the photograph of the goose.— If the bone sh^d. prove blemished I will send a notice to Nature,— perhaps in any case as it turns out rather a curious instance of inheritance, independently of the cause of the malconformation.—²

Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin