Dear Sir

I am sorry I was not able to see you when you called upon me yesterday— I was thoroughly fatigued with y^e proceedings of y^e previous ten days and was afraid I had taken cold—

The Letters about which you enquire I remember seeing when I was a lad and they were in my father’s possession—¹ I have an impression that my Father gave them to D^r. E. Daniel Clarke for preservation in the Univ^y. Library—and that, when I was an Undergraduate, I saw them there.² But since my return in 1850 I have been too much engaged with things new to care, as I should like to do, for things old.³ My Grandfather, who has been a Fellow of this College, finally practised at Exeter, where he died, and was buried in y^e Cathedral.⁴ The two names of his Correspondents of which I have y^e clearest recollections are “Meade” and “Boerhave”—⁵

But M^r Bradshaw, our present Librarian, could tell you in a moment, whether my impression that my Grandfather’s collection of Letters is in y^e Univ^y. Library, is correct or not—⁶ I wish I could help you better—

Y^rs. Very truly | Rich^d. Okes

George Darwin Esq^re.