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To Friedrich Max Müller    15 October [1875]1

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Oct 15

My dear Sir

I am greatly obliged to you for so kindly sending me your essay, which I am sure will interest me much.2 With respect to our differences, though some of your remarks have been rather stinging they have all been made so gracefully I declare that I am like the man in the story who boasted that he had been soundly horsewhipped by a Duke!3

Pray believe me | Yours very sincerely | Charles Darwin

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1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Friedrich Max Müller, 13 October [1875].
2
See letter from Friedrich Max Müller, 13 October [1875] and nn. 2 and 3. CD’s annotated copy of Max Müller’s essay, ‘In self-defence: present state of scientific studies’ (Max Müller 1867–75, 4: 473–549), is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL.
3
The anecdote is taken from an article by Thomas Babington Macaulay that first appeared in the Edinburgh Review ([Macaulay] 1827, p. 246).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10201,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10201