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Darwin Correspondence Project

From B. W. Savile   10 October 1881

Shillingford Rectory Exeter.

Oct. 10th. 1881.

Dear Sir—

Absence from home during two days has prevented from acknowledging before today, as I now do, the safe receipt of your Second Letter—1 And I beg to render you my sincere thanks for yr. kindness in replying to my questions, by which I am enabled to understand, better than I did before, the hypothesis of the doctrine of Evolution.

I beg to remain, Dear Sir, | Yours faithfully | B. W. Savile

C. Darwin Esq

Summary

Thanks CD for answering his query about evolution.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-13385
From
Bourchier Wrey Savile
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
Exeter
Source of text
DAR 177: 44
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13385,” accessed on 19 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13385.xml

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