My dear Darwin,

I am going to ask you a great favour. You see what trouble your great Eminence in Science brings upon you.

Will you be so very kind at your leisure to give me your autograph on a loose bit of paper. It is for a brother medical man who is very anxious to possess it.

You will be surprised to learn that I have retired from Shrewsbury and come to live here quietly & I am not well, having attacks something like Angina Pectoris.

I sincerely hope you are well & strong in mind & body as ever.

Believe me | Yours most truly | & heartily | Henry Johnson

P.S. Mary & I were present in the Cave near Tenby when they found so many antediluvial bones &c. with Professor Rolleston &c. It was deeply interesting.²