My dear Cousin

I write only to thank you for your most kind letter and to say that the great book arrived safely last night.¹ I will begin at once to look through it, and whether or not I find anything to use, I shall be particularly glad to see it, as throwing some light on our grandfather’s character.²

Yours sincerely obliged | Charles Darwin

I will write again hereafter.

P.S. I thought of giving woodcuts of the house in which Dr. D. was born, and have got a photograph of Elston Hall from Mrs. Darwin of Creskeld.³ Could you give or lend a photograph of the Priory, as the scene of his death? I possess a drawing,—a poor copy in pencil of a lithograph, made from a drawing by some member of the Family, but I cannot exactly make out by whom.⁴