From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
Date:
[after 24 Feb 1871]
Source of text:
Lubbock family (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks for verses on Origin and Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Thanks for verses on Origin and Descent.
Recounts the removal and regrowth of her son’s extra digit; her grandfather showed the same condition.
EFL’s account of what CD has done in natural history is full and accurate and could not have been done better. He has added the titles of his later books and the name of his maternal grandfather [Josiah Wedgwood] of whom he is proud.