My dear Flower

You will remember the dried wings of the goose & your wish for other wings in spirits. I have this day heard from M^r R. A. Blair of Sedalia, Missouri that he has sent to the C. of Surgeons several specimens,—the nature of which is explained in enclosed letter.² I hope that you will think the case worth investigation; as since Brown-Sequards observations all cases of inheritance from injury seem to me well worthy of study.—³ I enclose M^r Blairs three letters to me, numbered in order. The second corrects some errors in the first. I also return your note to me, as it may serve to refresh your mind on subject.—⁴

Whenever you have arrived at any conclusion, I hope that you will kindly inform me, so that I may write to M^r. Blair, who has been extraordinarily kind.—

Believe me | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

P.S. A man at Leeds offered to send me a living pigeon born without eyes, & as he says without sockets in the skull: I asked him to send it to you, dead, as I thought that the skull might be curious: whether he has done so or will do so, I do not of course know.—⁵