From Annie Dowie 10 August [1875]1
Wetstones | West Kirby | Birkenhead.
10th August.
Dear Mr. Darwin—
Very many thanks for your kind acknowledgment received yesterday.2 I have been examining my sisters hand again and can distinctly feel & see the fifth knuckle though it is smaller than the fourth.3
I hope you will have an opportunity of examining it yourself some day. She tells me when she was 15—Mr. Syme again examined her right hand and agreed with Papa as to the regrowth—but did not advise any fresh operation as it would require such deep cutting out, that it would most likely injure by stiffening her little finger.4 I am glad nothing more was done—as she plays most beautifully on the piano—and might have had great difficulty in doing so after such a serious operation.
Hoping to have the great pleasure of coming to see you some day at Down, and with very kind regards and much esteem
I remain, | dear Mr Darwin | Yours most sincerely | Annie Dowie.
Footnotes
Summary
Has re-examined her sister’s extra finger. Reports her sister’s recollections regarding its regrowth.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10114
- From
- Anne (Annie) Chambers/Anne (Annie) Dowie
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Birkenhead
- Source of text
- DAR 162: 240
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10114,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10114.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23