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From Joseph Fayrer   8 July 1875

16 Granville Place

8 July 1875

Dear Mr. Darwin

Very many thanks for the copy of your last work just received.1 I shall prize it highly, and read it with great interest.

I am going out to India with the Prince of Wales2 if I can do anything there for you I shall be honoured by your commands   I trust you are well!

Believe me | Your’s very truly | J. Fayrer

1
Fayrer’s name is on the presentation list for Insectivorous plants (Appendix IV). He had supplied CD with information about the effects of cobra poison (see Correspondence vol. 22 and Insectivorous plants, pp. 206–8, 224).
2
Fayrer accompanied Albert Edward (later Edward VII) on his tour of India from October 1875 to May 1876 (ODNB s.v. Fayrer, Sir Joseph).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10053,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10053