To ? 27 April 1880
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
April 27. 1880
Dear Sir
I am very much obliged to you for your kindness in writing, but such malconformations, as you mention, are not very rare & therefore do not possess much novelty.1
I remain | Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
The correspondent and the precise subject of the letter have not been identified, but CD was interested in cases where a malformation caused by an injury appeared to have been inherited (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 26, letter to W. H. Flower, [4 March 1878]).
Summary
Thanks correspondent for writing, "but such malconformations, as you mention, are not very rare & therefore do not possess much novelty".
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12591
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Unidentified
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- John Wilson (dealer) (July 1986)
- Physical description
- ALS ** 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12591,” accessed on 16 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12591.xml
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