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To Annie Dowie   4 August [1875]1

Down, Beckenham, Kent

4th August

[… thanking … for] your promised intercession with your sister [… and sending an] autograph—as you care to have it— The extract from your Fathers diary will be quite sufficient […]’2

AL incomplete3

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to Annie Dowie, 1 August [1875].
2
CD had asked Dowie for further information relating to the apparent regrowth of a finger amputated from the hand of her sister, Alice Chambers (letter to Annie Dowie, 27 July 1875). Dowie’s reply included extracts from the diary of her father, Robert Chambers (letter from Annie Dowie, [after 27 July 1875]).
3
The original letter is complete and is described in the sale catalogue as being one page long with the signature excised.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10108A,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10108A