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To ?   18 August 1875

Down, | Beckenham, Kent, | Railway Station | Orpington, S.E.R.

Aug. 18/75

Dear Sir

I am much obliged to you for your kindness in having sent me the photographs of the various disks of stone. I will not trespass on your kindness by accepting the casts, as I am not likely ever again to attend to the subject of experience.1

I will send the photographs to my neighbour Sir J. Lubbock who from his studies will be better able to appreciate them, than I can.2

Pray believe me dear Sir | Yours faithfully | (sig.) Charles Darwin

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1
The copyist may have misread ‘expression’ as ‘experience’; CD published Expression in 1872. The stone discs have not been identified.
2
John Lubbock, whose country seat was at High Elms, near Down, had published on prehistoric archaeology (see, for example, Lubbock 1865).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10124F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10124F