To August Dupré 8 August 1881
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
Augt 8th 1881.
Dear Sir
I thank you for your very kind note.—1 The case which you give is a curious one, & it seems improbable in the highest degree that it shd. be one of accidental coincidence.—2
Dear Sir | yours faithfully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
This letter was found among the correspondence of CD with Raphael Meldola; it was apparently sent to Meldola by mistake, while CD’s letter to Meldola of 8 August 1881 was sent to Dupré (see letter to Raphael Meldola, 10 August [1881]).
Summary
AD’s case is a "curious one"; it seems impossible to explain as accidental coincidence.
[Letter sent in error to Raphael Meldola and apparently never forwarded to AD.]
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13281
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- August Dupré
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13281,” accessed on
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